What Do You Really Mean By That? Poem by RIC BASTASA

seeing the face of your lover
(the one whom you have not yet
revealed what you feel
deep inside you,

secret love, suppressed
desires, concealed emotions,

on a moment of distress
for love unrequited, you have been
indulged in an
inaction, what do you really mean

when you say, your world stops
revolving?

fool! you're at an age
where love has not place to hide,
where one cannot be stupid
enough to be silent

a bleeding heart? is there such
a place this time, for a bleeding heart?

situate yourself. be fair.
speak your mind. open your heart.
unzip that fly.