Scarred People Poem by RIC BASTASA

one rainy day
the scarred people
decide to take the plunge
on the murky river

they go naked
not for anything else
but to simply see who got
most of the scars
from their faces
to their feet

someone wins of course
his scars look like snakes and
centipedes
practically naked he looks like
a leopard

yet he is the most gentle person
of them all

they take their plunge into the murky river
following where the flood
may finally hide.