Becoming Just Like Everyone Else Poem by RIC BASTASA

since then
i stopped chasing for
a relationship

my beggar story
was indeed
regretful and i do not
want it
retouched

the whiskey is a bottle
of the past
and the beef stew
makes me
vomit
even the smell of it
can kill me

now i stopped chasing
love

it does not mean
that i must pursue
indifference

there is only one thing
i learned an
art
and this is the art of
just being myself

just sitting by the lake
watching the
fish swimming on the
shallow water
and letting time go

i am just becoming like
everybody else

nothing more
nothing less.