How Sweet Can Sweetness Be.... Poem by RIC BASTASA

too much honey on my tongue
cannot be sweeter
upon days when it sticks it
has not attracted an ant,
boring sweetness that makes the
mouth vomit and so i look for something else
its opposite: bitter
that which we junk becomes a need
for a variation,
we, humans, are not into this contentment
longing for sweetness that soon
will kill us,
and since we still want to live,
we take in
something bitter inside us,
and for a time again,
we recall, how sweet can sweetness be....