For All The Things That We Have Taken For Granted Poem by RIC BASTASA

a chocolate bar
that we bite
that sweetness that dissolves with ecstasy in our tongues

it bites us
and even at the end
eats us
much to our regrets

we gain weight for every sugar that we take for granted
for every heavy grain that we slide in our throats
the dough nut that recreates a hole in our
system

they soon eat us
whole
and then in our deathbed we keep on saying

'i could have been more careful'
but it is too late

the flowers are there
and the prayers are already said
the choir is singing
and someone you love has delivered the best eulogy
about you