It Is Worth Living Poem by RIC BASTASA

and so
i shall take advantage of the low tide in my life
go to the shallow shores
and pick some
sea grass and shells and
urchins

how beautiful does the sea floor
look
with all its tiny crabs
and grapes

this is the way to please a lonely soul
it shall search even if it does not find any
it shall make all the tiny parts of this earth
significant

shall i forget that grain of sand for a universe?
the shallow shore for a coastline as though i have the Bahamas in my
hands?

the mind knows how to magnify shreds of happy moments
into flying carpets of its endless imagination

and so this shall be it
the man without power against the world that laughs over
the powerless

the winds of poetry are calling
on board
the trip is endless

it is interesting
it is beautiful and i say with gladness that it is worth living.