..............Will Just Be Forgotten Poem by RIC BASTASA

sometimes you ask
why is happiness so nil?

why are the waves of
misfortune coming to the
shores of our lives?

who was that killed at
the early years of his life?
who was the mother who mourned
for all those years?

that beautiful girl has cancer
and she has only a month to live
that beautiful boy had nothing
to eat

the village was erased from the
face of the earth
all the houses burned and no
one is left there

and you, what have you done
to change all these?
you sit there, contemplating,
going inside the chambers of
your heart
losing yourself in the tranquility
of your soul

why sacrifice for a carpet when
you can only have a pair of shoes?
why change the world when you
cannot even change yourself?

let and let live
let go, let go, let life take its
own course
just watch, just be amazed
for life has its own life to live
and you are just
at the end one of its own stories
which, you have to accept,
cannot last, and just like every
story, every anecdote, every note,
will just be forgotten