The Power Of Mighty Silence Poem by RIC BASTASA

to stare and be unmoved
by any blocks
of inhumanity

the silence to violence
the ability
to be in place where others
stone you

the capacity to endure
the bleeding
when others slice your flesh
and eat them
like bacon

to stand your ground
when you
are right
to be unmoved in silence
when others
are laughing
and mocking


to be simply christlike
and look up
to the heavens
when the skies turn black

to give in to death
and feel the power
beyond it

why not?
why not?

be passionate
and be dead
and then
be too resurrected