Resort To Sleep.... Poem by RIC BASTASA

in search of happiness
one gambles
one risks too much in the name of love
or even lust
one puts at stake his one and only life,

then one gets it
satisfies itself, even extends beyond it
to such an avarice
of all those
darkest and happiest moments

what comes after of course
is this pain
that goes hand in hand with happiness

for they are always together
and one grips it
counts it
and seemingly to such an extreme cannot endure it
anymore

one gives up

resorts to sleep and
dream again.