Don't Take Matters Seriously, ...This Is Just A Game That We All Play Poem by RIC BASTASA

do not be that serious
poetry is not

serious about you in fact
it leaves you where you are now

alone, feeling rotten, dropped
potato, cut flower, vase with

a mosquito for another disease,
so, why not be a hanky-pansy,

dancing under the sun with
nothing on, and when people

think that you are crazy
and pour much attention, then

that is the price you get for
being this poetess, unadmired


for seriousness, unrewarded for
so much effort,

all the candles burn themselves
at night, and then nothing is left.