i understand your predicament <br />the house is as spacious as the whole sky <br />and there are no stars in there <br />i heard once when you speak and there were echoes <br />bouncing from wall to wall and when it arrives to me <br />its only message is ennui, <br /> <br />do you want me to tell her that there is a rope in the house <br />which is posing a threat to your existence and that night after night you fear yourself for an inhuman possibility? <br /> <br />that big screen in your living room will not work, <br />i tell you, <br />that menagerie of hummers will have no way of appeasing <br />your hunger for affection, <br />the garden of bamboos are neuters <br /> <br />all you ask is the human element <br />the one that gives you a glass of beer while you <br />plunge yourself in the sea <br />the one that gives you springtime <br />the one that affirms for once that you are <br />a breather <br /> <br />i will tell her that before the next war <br />erupts <br />before we are all destroyed by this <br />incoming chaos <br /> <br />i just hope that she will be alive when <br />i tell her this.<br /><br />RIC S. BASTASA<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-just-hope-that-she-will-be-alive-when-i-tell-her-this/
