A Poem For The Dead Villain Poem by RIC BASTASA

i do not really
think that we should quarrel
about a dead man

lest i think that you are
fixed
like a cancerous mole in your cheek

the dead has no more power
over us
we are alive and we can kick
we can always move on
using our power of locomotion

i do not think that we should worry
where he is buried
or whether he should still get the honors
which he did not really
deserve

let him be, he is the wind that
simply passes us all and then be gone
for bad or good
it does not really matter

the dead has no more power over us
if we do not forget, then forever we are damned.