Today's Empty Thoughts.... Poem by RIC BASTASA

today
he is unable to focus upon a certain idea
it is a waterfall.

he likes to grab a droplet of rain
his hands are filled with holes

he decides to lay his body on the grass
focus his eyes upon a star at night

there is no star, his eyes are closed
there is this kind of suspended feeling

like a frozen river, a fish got stuck on ice
a dragonfly trapped upon the web of a spider

there is this feeling of: what do i really think?
not what i want, but what is in my mind

there is this desert where everything that you see is sand
no camel, no moon, no oasis, no date palms, not even the shadow of a sand dune

the sounds of sighs come
you hear your self breathing for emptiness

you pause, rethinking, what is this?
you go inside it, trying to find if there is anybody there

it is empty. Yourself is not even there.
It is so real that you now doubt if an illusion exists at all.