Living Happily Ever After...... Poem by RIC BASTASA

there are so many stories to tell

no, not anymore from the beginning
i may not finish it till the end

there was this old man who died stealing
fish from a store and rushing away to cross the road
where he was hit by a bus rushing to fetch tourists
from the airport

there was this girl who got enthralled by the lights of
the great city who left home with a red head pimp

there was this father who made his wife his favorite
punching bag until she was pronounced dead in the hospital
due to a brain hemorrhage

there was this lying politician who cheated all his
constituents of their public funds who finally served
his last term in jail

there are stories of murder and justice of corruption and
redemption of heaven and hell of right and wrong

but i know what story you need and i know that it is all about
love and i do not want to spoil it on a holy Sunday morning

where you are supposed to go to church together and sing the songs of praise and feel the all the glories of grace and divine and human affections

and feel
that well sought ending of that most demanded story of


living happily ever after......