Those That Made Us Happy Poem by RIC BASTASA

thinking of grief
i had many.
There was this mother who
grieved over his son
hit by a truck and died.
The son just finished
Aeronautics and had flown
this first plane.

There was this guy who
was about to be married.
The girl was kidnapped by
bandits and
was then found dead in
the remote mountain.
She was raped.

There was this woman who
fell in love
spent her fortune to the
man she loved.
who never loved her.
and took her fortune away.
Left her
finally. And she killed herself.

so many stories about
miseries and misfortunes
and tragedies
and ironies of life.

we hear them. we read them.
and at the end we smile.
Ours are lesser.

And all of those that
are greater than ours
had made us
happier