Your Faith To The Letter Of Poetry Poem by RIC BASTASA

your faith to the letter of poetry
(not the law) is measured
by your fidelity to its life, today, you keep on writing
even though there is really nothing to write
even though there is nothing
that comes from inside you
like you vomit with nothing coming out anymore
you mimic what children do when they do not like
their parents
feigning sickness and breaking toys and
not eating much,
this is it now.you hear the buzz of life
but you are not a part of it anymore.

there is this leaf that keeps falling
in the abyss of darkness

it is different now. There is no bottom.