Devastatus Poem by RIC BASTASA

the news was awful
and it was devastating for dr. serafin
he waited
and there was no cure
there was only this falling
and failing
and falling
on an abyss
without for him
an end

dr. serafin did not cry
his wife did
she imagined a city
destroyed by this quake
and then fire came
and burned
the whole city
that ate
all the women
and children

there was in actuality
no earthquake
no city fire
there were only tears
from her eyes
and she said
what she did not really see
she felt
all the way down to the
smallest nerve
of her toes

dr. serafin was devastated
that was the only word
he knew
and it is still inside his heart

i waited for him to say
he does not believe
in God anymore
but he did not say it
he couldn't
he just did not have any courage at all
to be honest

he did not ask me
either
he knows i do not have the courage
too
there is simply no word
inside my heart
yet

for all these miseries