A Poem For Someone Out There Poem by RIC BASTASA

it is only when i keep the rules
concerning distancing that we shall feel the
essence of our union,

after night of our fusion, i need to walk away the following morning
i trek upon a mountain and stand at its highest peak to once more see more of you,

it is only this when i become convinced that i need and love you
and that i must, as a matter of grace and giving,

that i must leave and then forget you, because i know your pain
when i am with you, that gut that gluts in there.

it is only the distance that heals my pain, time waters it,
and then i become dignified as a man.