To The One I'Ve Known When I Was Younger Then Poem by RIC BASTASA

there was something in the past
that burnt me

you were there innocent like someone who does not belong
to earth

you never had he wings of an angel or even that of a bird
the chicken in you shames me

you were telling stories that i had no right to listen
because they hurt me

you did not know, you were a stranger in my heart
i was shattered with the news

you laughed at me, that was my first shame,
i fetched water from the well, repaired the leaking roof of the

house of my father, did not talk to mama for days,
regretting that i was born

with a limp on my leg, a black mark on my face,
a weakness on my heels

i did not change anything, it would be impossible
i must live all my years, and you shut your mouth up

you know very well, that despite everything
i am human and i have the right to be here


and you went your way, and i avoided the cross-crossing of
our paths

i live my life well, and that is your shame.