The Enviable Family Pictures Of Christmas Poem by RIC BASTASA

the pictures are
viral, family, yes family

a woman who is pregnant
for her second baby, beside

her son, and smiling husband,
in the porch of the house

the sun shines brightly and
the grasses too green for the

season, and you scroll some
more and this is more enviable

grandma and grandpa beside each
other, with all their married

children and surrounding them
ten or more grandchildren

the picture is rectangular to
fit all of them in one happy

picture this Christmas to mark
another milestone of their lives

in prosperity and posterity while
we just look on, turn on the TV

and focus more on what is happening
in Aleppo or in Australia or Germany

we divest ourselves of this happy
moment and divert out attention to

something worth taking and talking
because, we cannot have it, we can't

we simply can't, we reason out, we
are designed that way, Period.