What Is Really Most Important Is What You Have Not Seen Before. Poem by RIC BASTASA

perhaps you have taken Lady
Freedom
so she left you for good. Now

you have to get to know well
with the other Lady inside your
cell.

She is mean but not that cruel.
She will remind you of the rituals
which you have forgotten.

You have to comb your hair
a hundred times before you sleep.
You have to sleep on a flat bed.
Your view to the world is
limited,
Only through the slit eyes
of those bars
can you see the
the stars


what is really
most important is
what you have not
seen before.