Truly I Love You Poem by RIC BASTASA

truly i love you
and i keep it all these years
i will not be telling you
even on a sigh
when you are by my side
in the car
in the room
in the movie house
truly i love you
when i touch your hand
electricity runs in my head
in my heart
and i tremble like a man so in love
lighting the whole city
truly i love you and i will die without you
but you are
a star that in the literalness of this
science
too hot and too huge to burn me
to death
and so
using this logical mind
i must go away
stay there in the sky
as beautiful as you
are
i am the man in the desert
beside my camel
watching you
like a
a distant memory.