Love That Won'T Last Poem by RIC BASTASA

when i tell you that i love you
please do not
ask something that lasts
forever
for i am a man
simply a man
and i am
not
immortal

my love lasts
while i last
i last only for a moment
like a flower
that blooms today
and then
tonight is blown away
by the slightest
touch of
this
divine sigh

do not see me as a bud
of this
flower that in your mind
blooms and will last
forever

i am man i am mortal
at any time i may die.