Before I Write These Lines Poem by RIC BASTASA

before i write these lines
it will take me perhaps

perchance
ten years more
to realize that the words
are worthy to be
written

the pain finally soothing
when we finally
said goodbye

when we realize
that goodbyes seasoned
by the spices of time

that after all the bitter herb
too gives
a nice taste to the buds

so that when we meet again
we smile
we remember those tears
we thought salty
now, we say though silently
how funny
how misplaced sentimentally