Love Need Not Be Permanent Poem by RIC BASTASA

love need not last
otherwise you have been asking for much

love need not be forever
for it is we that love and mortals are we
shall we demand something like love immortal?

love need not make promises
for love is true and true love do not make promises
since promises are made only to be broken

love need not be happiness at all
for love is freedom too
and the quest for happiness has become a prison for most

let love be like a bird
flying free and moving to places it has not been too
relying on instincts and spontaneity

let love be just a moment to moment
a touch of the hand a kiss on the lips a gaze

let love know
that goodbyes are right there at the corner
that forgetting can be just the cure for love's innate pains