Anonymous ID: d1c914 June 24, 2018, 9:45 a.m. No.1887711   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

This Day - Poem by Jimmy Santiago Baca

 

I feel foolish,

like those silly robins jumping on the ditch boughs

when I run by them.

Those robins do not have the grand style of the red tailed hawk,

no design, no dream, just robins acting stupid.

They've never smoked cigarettes, drank whiskey, consumed drugs

as I have.

In their mindless

fluttering about

filled with nonsense,

they tell me how they

love the Great Spirit,

scold me not to be self-pitying,

to open my life

and make this day a bough on a tree

leaning over infinity, where eternity flows forward

and with day the river runs

carrying all that falls in it.

Be happy Jimmy, they chirp,

Jimmy, be silly, make this day a tree

leaning over the river eternity

and fuss about in its branches.

~Jimmy Santiago Baca