Sometimes It Must Be Me Who Must Say: Sorry Poem by RIC BASTASA

you apply for a job and they are the bosses
who give you the requirements

from 1 to 20 and you comply and then they take a look at your papers
and they say they need another set of requirements
from A to D,

and they tell you the deadline and they leave you the final note
that you comply
otherwise you will not be considered and everything in your life
will simply
be a jeopardy, or even double jeopardy

and they say that they do not want to say the word
sorry
to you
at the final rejection

you finally give up
and make a protest to this kind of injustice

and you write your latest entry in your journal:

' i finally gave up, and sometimes, dear diary,
it must be me who must say:
sorry, you also do not deserve me.
i quit'

love,

myself.