Other People Have Become Hell As You Defined It Poem by RIC BASTASA

and so
i must believe you

other people have
become
hell as you
defined it

you keep
boundaries
and not a foot
shall step
within it

love is superfluous
you've outgrown it
and you have learned
how happy it is
just to be left alone

in fact
you have considered those
who married
and have kids
as
unlucky

the world is not safe
anymore
for kids
or married people

let the single
die in peace
no one cries for them
no one sends them
in their grave
with so much
sentimentality

no ritual
no drama

an ex-lover has
called four times
and you did not
answer

it is unnecessary
no one completes you
for you have
all concluded that you
are the most
complete


(lonely woman
in this world)

i never said it.