Your Cruelty.... Poem by RIC BASTASA

for me to live
do not uproot me
do not misinterpret
i am not a plant
i am human,

my roots are in you
do not take me away.

you are my fertile soil
i am deeply rooted to you
for my life and survival.

do not uproot me, and yet
there you are, you uproot
me, and i though i would
die, i am human,

i am not a plant, and
despite all these pains,
i must survive.

i am human, i am not
a tree, i move, and
i survive.