Life Has Brought Forth Another Sufferer Poem by RIC BASTASA

a little boy sits
on a boat going to dapitan

alone he remains silent
throughout the trip

i watch him closely,
his sad eyes following

the ripples on the river
without much thinking

a voice speaks as though
from heaven 'another victim'

was it not Schopenhauer
who in his pessimistic meter

once said that life is a seducer
that brings forth another sufferer?





i admire his courage
and will
for in my youth
i never fought
as i, like hamlet
took no action but
doubt.