When We See Each Other Again Poem by RIC BASTASA

away from the crowd
we step beyond the jambs of this door

beyond the sills of these windows
we stretch our minds

and we in order to survive this madness
shall pretend that we have never met

i shall be in the hold of another arms
and we shall kiss as we have long been lovers

you will not glance or if you will you must pretend
that you have never seen us

you walk further and take another direction
we too, shall do the same, but she will never notice why

we take the same ride on the plane
and you take the far look into the clouds

and then it rains and i close the pane
she is asleep and i begin talking to the nearby wall.