The Ocean Of Animosities Poem by RIC BASTASA

you just do not really know
if the happy faces you meet on
the street of this holiday reason
are truly happy, or they just
feign it, smiles here and there,
greetings too, to cheer you up
and not to contaminate you with
the deepest sadness of this
humanity: alone on christmas,
save money for the rainy days,
cannot be with family in faraway
places, heavy working schedule,
broken relationships, trying hard
to cope up, and always keeping
that thought, to keep things to
themselves, mind their own life,
and struggle hard just to survive.

oh, it's a concrete jungle right here,
a maddening crowd, an ocean of animosities....