A Story About Guilt And Pity... Poem by RIC BASTASA

there are two kinds of people in this world. You know it. The swindler and the swindled. The one who felt swindled and the one who never admits that he swindled.They are brothers.

a man of high rank, feeling guilty about his rise to the skies, the lonely eagle
that eats monkeys for lunch and dinner and shares it to no one.

descends to the plains
walk on the grass and degrades
its being to be with
the simplest creature, the worm and the snail,

thinking that these two deserve
to be raised from their
lowly, damp, slow
and dark state,

only to be infected by the
virus of the worm
the bacteria of the snail

and these lowly creatures
claim the triumph over the eagle
who in its fancy to be
belittled
finds his ultimate death...