Unlike All Of You.... Poem by RIC BASTASA

we keep
the big difference within us
we two

we are destined to just
pass by

we are conditioned to leave
nothing

not even our footstep
no name to be known

unlike you and the rest
you leave a trace
you have grown a tree
and you leave it
towering in the place
where you
once lived

all your names are carved
on the bark
we cannot find ours
some of your names are
listed in stone
you shall be remembered
in every land

we do not condemn ourselves
on this
we do not blame even the gods
we are designed simply to
be that

air, space, or dusts
we are invisible
when we are gone
no one remembers

they may want to trace
our beginnings our end
it simply cannot be
done

fate seals us
our identities our histories
forever blocked.