i do not just write from a scratch of an idea from anywhere <br />like i get a pen and a piece of yellow paper, a blank sheet of <br />bondpaper, unperfumed like the love letter sent to sensuality, <br />it is not a matter of switching on the light of the lampshade <br />early dawn, rub my eyes, tap my middle finger on the table, <br />and breathe deeply and say, <br />i will write this <br />emptiness, with no one inside this circle of emptiness, <br />like an empty set, <br />zero, nothing inside some domains, <br />no, <br />writing starts with someone in mind <br />not really something lovely that excites my hormones <br />my lust and desire for another sexual fantasies <br />it woudl be too selfish <br />and ignoble, <br />writing starts with you <br />the concrete you, the once crying inside the room <br />on a wintry night, the one who needs the comfort of my <br />thoughts, the warmth of my concern <br />though distant <br />like the sun to another sun to another star to another star <br />of this galaxy to another galaxy, <br />i think about your worries <br />i reflect upon your quest to be alive again <br />i ponder upon your thirst <br />for love <br />something specific <br />something i can touch with the fingers of my mind <br />something that i can bite and check if this something is still <br />tasting the salty taste of the blood of life, <br />as i grow somehow <br />i shall think about the great spaces and places of the other worlds <br />beyond you and me <br />beyond us, <br />my mind gaping like an open mouth of a baby <br />opening to the freshness of this world <br /> <br />i will start with you <br />your sad eyes, it will start with the question <br /> <br />how can i ever wipe your tears <br />how can i ever make you smile again <br /> <br />and then the sadness of the world <br />its miseries <br />how can we ever heal it, <br />how can we ever make it green and alive again <br /> <br />from the very beginning<br /><br />RIC S. BASTASA<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-write-to-think-to-imagine-to-love/
