To Live.....Yes To Live.... Poem by RIC BASTASA

To Live.....Yes To Live....

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your chickens are scattered on the yard
oh, how they have multiplied too easily

and your pigs, how fat and happy with their
noise even before their food are served

you have many sacks of rice still not dried
under the sun, oh, how rain can be so hard
headed these times of the year

you built a big house, strong and mighty
in the old neighborhood, but despite all these

fortunes and luck as you claim, you have
been overwhelmed by your sadness, you claimed

all the loneliness for yourself, you wish to die,
you keep on being sick, eating less, and

keeping things alone by yourself, upon a pain
that you cannot describe now. I see your tears

in bed, you never care to wipe them now, as
though saying, all these are useless, you

succumb to despair, saying you surrender,
a decision you make, and then in that house

with a big window, when you are gone, another
woman shall face the road, wave at strangers


saying that she is the winner now, and your
husband says he is happier now, without you.


p.s. please do not give up. Others fought to live.
others kill to live. yes, live, live, drink life.

Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Topic(s) of this poem: life
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RIC BASTASA

RIC BASTASA

Philippines
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