Days And Nights Go By (By R.B.) Poem by RIC BASTASA

days and nights go by
like friends and lovers
merely passing by us
not stopping not staying

know by now, life is
like that, too, merely
passing by, not staying,

pilgrims, yes, days
and nights are pilgrims,
always passing by,
not staying,
night not blacking out
day, not exploding

yes, just passing by
like poems that you
read, that you pass
by, and then we

begin again, we pass
again, not stopping
not staying, sometimes
not even glancing.....