Eden Of My Mind... Poem by RIC BASTASA

it is our creativity that
takes us away from the norms
of daily dallies

daisies growing on the hillsides
clouds hanging on cliffs

it is our imagination that takes
us away from pagination
about books that have no landscapes
no sailboats on its
horizons

when i begin to think about those
beautiful memories with you
those bygone days
i become free
shackles dissolve like ice cream on
my feet and hands
the lightness of my being
licks them

it is this thought of you that frees
me from the chains of my grief

the way the morning sun kisses the hills
the way the moon sails on the seas

what keeps me alive is not myself but you
my memory of youth tanning me on the beach

it is this paradise of my mind
that keeps Eden forever.