A Sad Story About A Plight Of A Woman On The Other Side Of The World

he is talking to
a woman on the other side of
the world

a world that he cannot
feel
because he never saw
it
neither is the woman
since
she is on the other side
of the world
he was never there

he knows a lot
about her
he was told by so many
who tell him
that she lives with them
for a while

he hears everything about
those foul things about her
but he never smells them

can foul be foul when he only
hears it?
can a sense of smell be simply
heard?

while they were talking on the phone
she hints about how her lover
rejected her
about how her father abused her
how her mother abandoned
all of them
for another man

how their house was foreclosed
and how they have to move
to another place
again and again

how she had to sleep with other men
to make a living
etcetera etcetera

it was a long conversation
and it was then that he felt her
a madness not of her own causing
but of society as a whole

when she was finished
he nodded, for now
he understood.

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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