What I Think..... Poem by RIC BASTASA

actually we like that some words are
better be unsaid,

that some nuggets remain in
their natural state

like diamond unpolished
like gold that remains united
one with the rocks and deep underground

nothing about mercurial segregation
or nitric acid detachments

to make them more pleasing
and yet too
artificial


their value so enhanced
that people soon begin to kill
one another

actually things are better
if they remain buried forever

in fact that is what grasses take pride
that is what volcanic eruptions with their hot lava
after having cooled in time
achieve with hidden dignity

no one remembers the horrors of the past
no one recalls the cruelty of
those who were very much ahead of us

actually it would have been better
if we have not met even once
had that talk and drink and shared those stories

i guess, my life would have been much better (off)
without you.