Our Awakenings... Poem by RIC BASTASA

in this situation
there is simplyno wall
nothing about
a writer's block or some
blankness on our
stares
for we are heavily loaded
yet we carry on,
for we are attacked from all
the sides
yet we are not conquered
from our shoulders
lay the burdens of the earth
yet we have remained
the atlases that we are

henceforth, henceforth,
not a word shall block us
not this emptiness
neither vagueness nor
blindnesss
shall keep us away from the
light of our
awakenings....