Mariposa Poem by RIC BASTASA

White orchid
Tenaciously clinging to
A strong bark

Her nights are lonely
Her days boring
She is suffocating
To too much
A high place
Where she hangs
Herself

She is waiting
For courage
To take her
Away
Take her down
Down to an earthly
Ground away from everything

She does not want purity
It is wasting her own beauty

She wants to escape
And be away
Be a flower to a wild woman
She will be a part of her
Wildly dancing on a dark night
To be crushed by lots of strong men’s hands.