....How Ungrateful... Poem by RIC BASTASA

it ended
dismally.

how sad
the start
was superb.

smooth life
longer than expected
clear and clean
until it ended
with all disgust.

you fell in love
with the wrong person
at the wrong time and
everything is wrong.
all very wrong they
all swear to God.

and you died
without the flowers.
and then they bury
you the next day
all thinking that
without you now
they will all live
with dignity
happily ever after.

how ungrateful
you made them live
you dress them
you feed them
you shelter them.
and then they tell
you how you should love
how you should live
how you should die.
how should you be
buried and how you
deserve to be forgotten.
vanished from the very
minds you have created.