Back To Each Other's Arms Poem by RIC BASTASA

shall you accuse us? dare. we know our defenses.
we were first,

the date of our meeting was earlier then.
years are too cruel for us,
we who learned love earlier
under the pine trees in Davao,
we who drank the nectar of flowers
in fantasy land of the bees


we are back into our arms
and you must understand how we must cope up with a love

that we lost, when youth was confused,
when our arms were too tight
we were choked almost to death
until we learned to make a distance

a distance which fooled us into oblivion,

we do not give up, we sting to the hope of
having new arms now
those that understand that love is always sweeter
the second time around

if the groan is loud enough
you may cover your ears.