The World At Large Poem by RIC BASTASA

when you feel pain
you justify it that the world is like this and that
that most of its parts is pain

and you take every pain as part of you
and shall never refuse anything that comes
like uninvited guests of your house
when you become a voluntary prey
to all these parasites
and predators
host of all hosts you welcome
the code of stupidity

but soon you realize that there is no use to all these
why pain?
why inflict it upon a self that knows
the freedom of choices?

you go away and find the ways of having another life
to the world at large
that shows to you the vastness of the skies
the wideness of the oceans
the myriad islands and the unexplored continents
the mysterious universe

all these tell you, why not try wonder? why not take the side
of the happy moments?