Life Winks At Us Filled With All Its Wisdom.... Poem by RIC BASTASA

I KNOW that you sought someone else
for comfort
distrusting even mother and father,
or even us, thinking that we could not
lessen your pain,

we were told that in their company you
exhibited a deviation from all those norms.
laughing a little and then gazing at eternity,
and then sob, and cry and then laugh again
behaving like an insane woman,

they were worried too, as we had already worried
for quite a time already,
we are looking for a door to enter your house
with all caution not to disturb the peace of your sorrow.

we could have told you that our sufferings are
greater and deeper than yours
that old age has kept us victors of this war
against loneliness
that the way we learned how to fill vacuity
has made us all artists in the stage of life,

for now we keep our secrets to ourselves,
our respect for Life becoming nobler than before
for now we keep this silence, we shut our mouths,
we will let Life talk to you, we will let Time
teach you: Life is not easy. Each journey is different.
No suffering is alike. There are no standard reasons.
No short cut explanations.

This labyrinth is taking you into nowhere
but we keep the faith. you are as strong as us,
perhaps even wiser, but you have not known it yet.
Life is playing you a game, and there you are
still not knowing it, as we watch in the other room
between this wall, and your wall.

Life winks at us and smiles like a old man
filled with so much wisdom.