This And This And This... Poem by RIC BASTASA

to see more
deeply beauty
beloved
close your eyes

i have no name
you have none

light cannot be
this alliance.

this substance
inside our flesh

is beautiful.
it is the one seeing
the truth.

when i turn on
the light
i struggle.

this body chides
me in the mirror

it says i am
ugly
it says i am
horrible

the truth is here
in the heart

a flower in the
sky
a moon in the
reeds


a beautiful word
you put inside my
mouth

that makes me live
for the moment.