That Is For......My Eyes Are Closed Poem by RIC BASTASA

1

this is for
The soldier who died today

in your unfinished poem
God has heard all

His sighs.


2

Unfinished poems
Are miraculous

They make God
Hear us

They make us
Think.


they make us
write

our own to finish our own
to fill our own
emptiness

3

He is great
He is good

He is wise
He is omnipresent

He is omnipotent
He is compassionate

He is Love
He is grand

He is the Answer
He is peace

4

Let us have vodka
For a drink

The people here are poor
Let us have rice wine instead.


5

Let not the other half of
The darkness that you see

Create the eclipse of your
Light, let the other half that

You claim you own
shine some more

6

I am watching with my ears
Wide open,

because my eyes are
Closed from the beginning.