I Do Not Know You..... Poem by RIC BASTASA

and so you have arrived,
and you call, ' i am here'

when i heard this, i then
remember

' i am here' i also said that
to you, when i arrived there

in your place, i was a tree and
you are the horseman and you keep on

that equestrian pride, and you always
pass me by, and

i felt betrayed, and diminished and
degraded,

i even felt i was just a grain of
sand
and you were the sea

but i am not that foolish, i also
learn, i got brains you know

and so when you keep on ringing your
arrival, i turned my phone off,

and when you sent me text messages
i just deleted them, all of them

so you are here? what is it? now
is the time too for me to say

' i am busy' that's pretty cool, but
that is still not enough,

'do i know you? ' this could be worse,

but i muster the courage now to show
who you are,

ugly, ill-mannered, manipulative,
user, monster, parasite, so here you are?

i am so sorry, i do not know you.