To Osky On His Birthday Today Poem by RIC BASTASA

Like the planets you take your own orbit
away from the rest
eluding this fatal collision
you travel alone keeping on your own gravitation
balancing the forces of your being
outside inside
near and far
coming and going
centrifugal centripetal

that is the way you move
to be alive
then the moment comes
when you complete
one revolution

how time trickled
like some drops from a rock
you flow
bit by bit
you are so busy then
about almost everything

on the other side
the clear pool of water
mirror of the sky and sun and moon

it is you
you have earned it
it is you
on your birthday