...Departure......... Poem by RIC BASTASA

it happens
truth on both sides
truth on extreme ends
truth on the left
and truth on the right
what you thought was
false has become true
by now.

and so truth becomes
two faced. each face is
true. Nothing is false
there, you know it by
heart. You love this and
you love that. Both are
truly loved.

you are not false and
they are not too. Love
is here with both hands
and happy feet.
dancing to everyone.
Not just two but everyone.

both doors are true.
the house is true. There
is no false door here
or a false window.
each serves what truth is.

you enter by that door.
i leave on this door.
I look over this window.
You stay there.

now, are you still
discerning whether
what is claim is false?

hold my hand.
not one of us is false.
even if love has left
us both. we remain to be
true. Departure.