Overrating Poem by RIC BASTASA

love is always overrated
you tell the emoting ones

because you have also
overrated
politics
you destroy families and move on to
other places of
rebellion

it is a matter of
point of view

for one whose life depends
on whether he is loved
love will always be
overrated
in such a way that if love fails
the whole world
falls upon his shoulders and
breaks him
down into smashed
pieces
fragmented self
looking for
wholeness

same with politics and
adoptions of social causes

one immerses
oneself deep into a world
that has no hope for change

the rich always winning
the poor dumped
into the chasms of
a series of deaths

life is the one that is always
underrated

nature does too in one blink of an eye
bodies over bodies
buried over rotting bodies
and the world that cannot take the stinking
situation
burns all these
to erase it also
in one blink

we like a world that is green
well covered canopy of green trees
wrapped with vines

blue skies
fresh air
smooth seas
rolling mountains
singing springs
winding rivers
rainbow colored birds

but always we do the reverse of what we really wish for

trees are cut
virgin forests raped
white sands and blue seas tainted
with our own
trashy way of doing things

drastic destruction
unthinkable murder of nature
bleeding earth
crying heavens
flooding plains
breaking dams
bleeding peace
a bloody world.