374 Poem by RIC BASTASA

tell me honey
how does it feel to be lonely
to be faceless
to be loveless
in a crowd
of people, thousands of them walking
roaming this earth
all looking for love and not finding any
in a crowd of namelessness
always looking at each other
in short glimpses
without saying
hello?

tell me how does it feel now
when he left you and when you told him
i do not need you

when your heart
calls for his name saying
i still love you,
but you didn't


tell me how to tell myself when i have pretended too much
not needing anyone
when alone in my room now
i wish
i in an instant dies,
begging for company
for someone
to touch
warmth

tell me how to breathe now
tell me how to live
tell me how to love and keep love and live
this broken
heart

in this faceless, loveless
locomotion in a
crowd
where there is practically no one
to say
hello

not even goodbye.