The Deal To Make Others Happy Poem by RIC BASTASA

i make a deal with myself
everyday i must find a way
to make other people happy

tough deal
but i must: connect the missing
link of love

find the lost photo album
of the spinster

bring the old man at
the metro station
and described to his blindness
the colors that i see
the music that lies in the heart
amidst the noise
of this world

little pleasures of the hands of children
dipping fingers
on the cool water of the creek
by the side of
the big canal
of an old house abandoned
by the couple
that i must make them
to reconnect
on love letters long gone
i must retrieve
what has been fading

there is a lonely man sitting
waiting
i must provide him with another name

tough deal
but worth it, it is.