A New Meeting Poem by RIC BASTASA

make my life
easy
i shall flow as lightly as a feather
in the sky without rain

and the only way to do it
is you make yours busy
stay away from the house
and let all those details
do not destruct you

nor distract me with your
complaints for the hardness of words
the dis-edifying structures of our
faiths

think: we dignify ourselves too with
distance
we erect walls and pillars apart
for the space to
breathe
the nearness of you sometimes
is actually
a contempt of so much
intimacy

think: love is always sweeter the third
time around
the second did not work that well
we have abused
love that much with
promises
of independence

so? go and i too go my way
tonight we meet as a new set of strangers
asking names
for new brands of coffee
when i look at you again
pretend
there is none of us and only then
can we be true again