We Are Stunned At The News And The Rain Never Stops..... Poem by RIC BASTASA

today i remember
mr. fred
my professor
in one of those
english
electives,

he is a poem
of rain
of hair and rain
between us
barriers between
barriers
rain that blurs
trees
and glass windows

inside the
theater he reads
a poem of rain
those who listen
cry
but he didn't he
kept on reading until
it ended
and those who
listened intently
carried by the
sound of the rain
never felt that
end

he has a beard
uncut
a fat body
he walks slowly
slower than a snail

people who do not
know him
think that he is
a sick man


today i remember him
he died at an early
age
his only daughter
at four
leaving a beautiful
and lonely
and mourning wife


we are stunned at
the news
and the rain never
stops.....

rain is beautifully sad
it haunts us
inspires us to live some more
and be beautiful
at most....