Living Inside Your Mind... Poem by RIC BASTASA

when one lives inside his mind these things may happen:
there is a rabbit, he smells a labyrinth and goes inside one of those
entrances, holes, and feels finally that it is falling and falling
into a deep abyss and
lands on a certain floor but there is darkness everywhere
and the labyrinths multiply like cancer cells
and it tries to find an entrance again,
feeling lost he smells nothing and begins to panic since the labyrinths
spread like some capillaries on the skin...

the palpitations become a ticking bomb and before the rabbit knows it
an explosion occurs, and the rabbit becomes one crushed red melon...

the mind however is a Good Samaritan, it blanks itself,
closes the eyes, and opens them again to see new beginnings...

the moral lesson is this sense of loss and
the euphoria of having found yourself again in the same mind

now there are no rabbits coming out from the magic of the black hat
there are persons, friends, superiors, subordinates, acquaintances
faces that you can recall with their name tags on

it is a good sunny day. Walk under the sun and forget about those
convoluted thoughts. Now live within your body.