Streams Of The Rivers Waters Poem by RIC BASTASA

the meditations of the man on the river
how long will it take him to his nirvana?

the lotus in him is what i am seeing now
and his eyes do not mind the working of

this world. I see waters running on his head.
I see rivers in his veins. I am silent and still.

I am this pond watching how a lotus grows.
How things are with the toads. How time

falls like a teardrop, creating the ripples of
my breaths.There it is. Beauty at its core.