..About Us....... Poem by RIC BASTASA

..About Us.......



I congratulate you
for that newly-found freedom
of yours

the way you refuse to open
the car door of His Eminence
the candid way by which you
said that he better have fun
and go outside to see the sun
feel the beats and pulse of
the ordinary man.

i love the way you say it.
And we reflect upon the times
of our lives
when were we born?
what did we do?
what dreams did we murder?
what words did we suppress?
what restraints made us
hypocrites and sociopaths and
schizophrenic?

we have always written the metaphors
for fear of the candid
which doubtless had punished those
who were so young before us
and those who were not able to bloom
like the flowers in the wild fields.

i admire you my dear.
Keep the liveliness of dissent
keep the honesty of your faith
we cannot follow you any longer
we had long been dead and buried
in those undisclosed places of
our blank-eyes chambers and blinded
rooms where we are embalmed and stuffed
like the heads of the prized hunter..

Saturday, February 25, 2017
Topic(s) of this poem: life
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Philippines
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