..Lessons Learned From The Piano Poem by RIC BASTASA

you said it well
you just cut one of her fingers
that play the piano

one key is taken
the piano never sings again
the woman had lost her voice
her heart
her only love
the only lively feeling she has

and you keep the threat
you shall cut another finger again
another finger

and do you really think
that love shall go away scared
and trembling?

no, she says, with blood
oozing from her hands
no, no, no.
her love will always be true
and not for him
again.....