Saying Goodbye To The Lonely One Poem by RIC BASTASA

for one thing
i think i am fair enough
for i never forced you
to love me
despite the depths of
your own loneliness

love is free
love is a wild bird
love is a black horse
love is a mellowing
stare

and so on and so forth

i can tell
you never like to read
and listen

i can feel the
anger that roots in there
and keeps on
rooting

your loneliness
amazes me
it is tough
as it is abrasive

no bird likes to
go near you
no boat is coming
ashore
to the port of your
being

i shy away from
loneliness
it has killed a lot
already

and so i move to
other places
from here where
love cannot flourish


life may still take care
of your destiny
but i do not think that
love
has than kind of
patience.