A Book Of Cruelty? Poem by RIC BASTASA

A Book Of Cruelty?

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i, too, am guilty
of this fact that
this world in my birth
has given
me all
innocence and in my youth
has given
me all the energy
then wisdom and wealth
and then what have i given in
return?

despair? a lecture on the philosophy of
nothingness?
lethargy? an article of faithlessness?
a book of cruelty?
a bang of my head on the wall
the collision of my car on the
dead end street of hopelessness?

Life shall judge me
with condemnation if i take it away
as it should not have been

raw mango that i harvest with
sourness upon its pulp
stains upon its skin
on a premature
picking

For like must pluck itself upon itself
and of course,
should not be my own decision,

As you did it,
Yours is next to tell.

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