It Was So Bad, But You Gave It Your Smile Poem by RIC BASTASA

at first when it was first handed to you
it was really as horrible as a bomb
but it has not exploded it and so you do not really know
the exact significance

nothing about consequences
like an annihilation that is about to happen
to you,

and so you receive it gladly
and your smile detonated it
and people weep
and then they leave
one by one


and it is you alone
and what you remember again
was that last sweetest smile that you gave
so willingly in exchange of that gift

you felt the last happiness
and then you too leave
though
in a different direction....

no one returns
and reclaim what steps you
have been taken