..Honestly Without Us.... Poem by RIC BASTASA

if you remember
try to. If you believe
try deja vu.
a shadow relates to
a rainbow
and envies color.
you identify with
someone who enters
the same
restaurant that you
frequent
wearing the same shoes
that you are wearing.
you take a glance and
a glance is reciprocally
given, less the
conversation, as shyness
or perhaps
restraint out of civil
courtesy
is seemingly the rule of
this game.

and then it happened.
honestly, without us.