we busy for some noble purpose <br />for instance, i teach and you travel visiting places <br />where you are needed, as i continue on <br />burning the fires <br />of students who want to learn more <br />as i guide them where legal wisdom lies <br />in between those wits <br />and slides of humor <br />where we finally meet on the serious challenges <br />of criticisms: what society ought to be? who the leaders must be? <br />where progress is? what trees can do for this aging earth? <br />etcetera etcetera <br /> <br />we are angry <br />for those who search personal pleasures on Sundays <br />the cock-fighters shouting at the cockpit <br />the picnickers drunk on the beach <br />the rumormongers enjoying the headlines of the town <br />who are pregnant without getting married <br />who are impoverished by their convictions <br /> <br />they are those that thrive <br />we are those endangered species <br />and we are meant to perish <br /> <br />we blame no one then <br />as we meet again and be so silent.<br /><br />RIC S. BASTASA<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/about-us-and-about-them/
