You Should Have Known Him In The First Place Poem by RIC BASTASA

You Should Have Known Him In The First Place



he is not what you think he is
he is not a bridge, neither is he a river
though he claims himself to be
but it is not what and how you understand it
a bridge of a rainbow
a river of souls
it is not as literal as a collection letter
neither is it a fantasy of the Cinderella shoe
you are given a hint
a foreword
a cinder, a hoe, an ere
it is not like the kind of thing that you hold and grip
it is something that you see and slip
like a kiss on the hair not on the lips
nothing is committal but more like the life
of the transmitter
something blurs but becomes clear sometime
but not for long
something that you doubt after you are made so sure of it
something that you find and then lose
classic yet cheap
harmless yet at the end causes you
an excruciating pain
cancer that you think benign
but so much of a malign
a tough thought that those of that
which kills and
yet redeeming

you are lost i know in pondering
but that is what this game is all about
i pick you up and then dropp you
like the way you dropp them all too
hot potato.

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