Red....... Poem by RIC BASTASA

oh so you love someone
who never loves you back.
you are into a great sacrifice
but you still embrace this
journey, with whom you love,
and you feel so alone and hurt.

oh, i admire you for this,
you are that whale who goes ashore
to die.

it is its blood that turned the
sea red. it is its meat that feed
the hungry natives of
this wild and violent land.

no questions are asked as people
feast.
the old men still wonder if stupidity
is such a beautiful myth.

the fact is, you you try to impress,
it is not the death of the body
that ends love's journey.
it is not the fulfillment of love
that defines what is love.

it is the cliffhanger out there,
the silence that one takes upon oneself
after the whole story is told.

it is the void that remains
unspeakable. it is the sacrifice of
someone that makes this place
a wonder, despite the sadness and
the tragedy.