To The Lady In Power Poem by RIC BASTASA

i thought
no mother in her right
mind would give
a snake to her child who
is asking for
bread

this time an
aberration had
taken place right in
the road
where the hungry children
flocked
to ask for rice

the force of the law
was used
against the very ones
who put them in power

instead of rice
they were given bullets

three were killed
the other hundred wounded
some disappeared

what a mess!
do they not know that the
murderous
shape of bullets are
not the same as the gentle grace
of rice grains?

they ask for life
and you Madam
gave them death

you have no moral right
to continue being their
mother.....