How Can You Be Lonely? Poem by RIC BASTASA

hear the sounds of footsteps

the ants are moving
pulling their catch
for the day

your cornflake
is tasty,

a spill of milk on
the floor

a lizard comes
down
to drink what
you wasted

a dragonfly
is lost and whirls
around the
flourescent bulb.

turn it off
it is 6 o'clock

there is no
more shadow

there are rays
of light
wanting to
enter the shutters
and the blinds

open them
turn off the light

welcome
this new morning

there is no more
reason to be
lonely

write it. I am
reborn.

write it. I am
a child of God.
I am a happy
child of God.

write it. I am
ready. I am going.

now. Go, go. go.