I Have Learned To Love You... Poem by RIC BASTASA

at first
it was nothing but the money and perks that you get
that i get from you
and then i have you for years and years in the office
and even in the house and then i carry you
even on vacations,
until then you have become part of me and i of you,
everyday of those years, even at dawn, i think of you,
and you become part of my prayers,
and aspirations,
i got so many papers of you, and write about you,
and i you affect other people's lives, the community and
my country, and perhaps even the world

you have become my world and my universe
not now about the money that i get from you
but the life that you have given me,

my work, my career, i love you.