involuntarily he swallows something bitter <br />not perfectly round <br />definitely bitter <br />but for now he shall not spit it out <br />he needs time <br />perhaps it will be years <br />he cannot even open his mouth to speak <br />they call him mute and dumb and deaf <br />but inside his ears are sharp <br />his understanding like the seed so bitter <br /> <br />his hope is only that day when by having learned <br />all the bitterness <br />he shall spit fire <br />and magma comes out from his mouth <br />and rocks <br />and everything thermoplastic <br />like he is bomb that shakes all their worlds <br />into tiny splinters<br /><br />RIC S. BASTASA<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/swallowing-something-bitter/
