About Her And Love And Liking And Need. Poem by RIC BASTASA

in your dream someone comes
and tells you about love, and
she kisses you and you will
believe her, and then for another
passionate night, you come to
a silent moment, without her and
you believe that she likes you,
but then you look at the mirror
and finds her too young for you
and you begin to doubt whether
she likes you. And then for two
more nights, when she falls asleep
beside you, you doubt whether she
likes you, in fact, you fall to
another chasm of silence, and
you fall freely from there and
you meet the moment of truth,
that she needs you, and love and
like begins to disappear in your
notes, and you embrace the truth
of this life, where love is nil
and even uncertain.

you wake up and she leaves and
you begin to count the fingers of
your hands, and in that last empty
space, you finally arrive at
yourself there: alone and awakened.
wise and free, and sound by then.