SWAN

SWAN

Ricardo Antonio Garcia

Rather than think of ugly Souls

I will think of Swans.

Their majestic right to the gates of beauty

unscathed by our tarnishing

swimming gregariously in their wonder.

We expend too much time

on the bliss of ignorance and shame

for our legacies aren’t of Swans.

We are of hatreds muffling sounds

burnishing its way

and I might say into an encampment

where we swim in blood waters.

Rather than illuminate freethinking

I would rather digest

those things that make a free man think.

If a Swan can isolate itself

from the wanton waves of Evil making

and still remain a beauteous wonder

I shall enslave myself to God

whose chains can be unforged by Faith.

My eyes of love for the Swan ….

My eyes of Swan …