i wish that
today i will be a man of
few words,
and if there be fewer than a
man of few words,
i will grab it still,
but we were already born with
all the inconsistencies
i was once a small baby
with that loudest cry
my mother said when i was
still in the hospital room
perhaps this wish is nothing
but an affirmation of what i want to be
and what i am
really not.
RIC S. BASTASA
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-man-of-few-words/
