Those Who Are Ungrateful...

if only you can see the face of
suffering
right in the deathbed
completed

if only you can hear the last
groan of the
hopeless cancer stricken
woman

you could not have sided
with the pleasures of
ungratefulness
the hypocrisy of your confidence
the uselessness of
believing in the selfishness
of your time

if only.....

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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