Proclaiming Independence Poem by RIC BASTASA

independence
is a responsibility

to know where
you are heeding
to know what to
do
what purpose
what motive
what good is left
after all
these cruelties of
friends and
foes alike

you are alone now
but never lonely
never afraid
never lost

there is no thought
left for the selfish
quest
automated to this
cause
for humanity

another year ends
and another years begins
not a slave anymore
about time and its
grips
but a master of this
universe
self-sufficient to its
cause
shining like a star
nurturing like the moon
powerful like the sun

for what is this
green grass of home?
your independence
homes for no home no more

anywhere is your
everywhere now
eye to eye with Moby Dick
parting ways
and this courage without
hope
this living without
questions
moving on, moving on

life a force of life
to the movement of the water
to the spins of this earth
with the whole universe