...Shall Happen To Us Too...... Poem by RIC BASTASA

i do n0t have
to advise her
she is but wisdom
herself
personified in
courage

her hammer is heavier
than mine
and when it bangs the
earth
its core shook
like it never had it
before

she is not a girl
she was never our child
she is a woman of
steel
wings of planes
and a computerized
future....
so what the hell is
this that we tell her
what to do with her
life?

she is our future
upside down and it is just
a matter of time
that what happens to her
now shall
happen to us too....