I Have Had A Taste Of Your Badness... Poem by RIC BASTASA

you have bitten my back
i thought it was another snake
venomous
and i thought i have only a few
minutes to live and hence
i regret the happenings of
my life

when i turn my back i have seen
you
and you have changed me

not to believe a beautiful woman's
body
a gentle face
a word soft-spoken and i have
more trust on myself now

finally realized that your bites
are not that effective anymore
and that i can live more of you each
day as just another lousy threat of
a bad life

and having become so immune
i have disregarded everything in you
like a monotonous murmur of a busy day
a routinary wave of the sea
another ill-wind which need not be minded
since it is just passing anyway


now i am free and you have become
another fog along my way
and i pass through it
without much thought.

how sad of you, a smoke,
another useless and ineffective
pollutant.

my world is as fresh and green as ever.
more flowers are thriving now
without you.