Cindy Poem by RIC BASTASA

what a way to mask
intentions,
for those failures
you stay put here
not blaming the
slowness of your
feet
and your inability
to make the necessary
connections
to success

your success has
an imported definition
it is not here
it is in another country
where people are
giving you
the higher currency
for your services

you mask
your failure with
patriotism

your weaknesses
you cover
with the love of self

be courageous
cindy
tell them the truth
you're a failure
oh yes
but you tried so hard
and that
makes you
the heroine of
today's
modern story
to greatness

stories that last
and get the
Oscars
you must know
has something to do
with honesty
and not the travesty
of that beautiful face
of pretension

Cindy
cry if you must
but have trust
failures don't
last.