For There Is One Thing That I So Badly Need Poem by RIC BASTASA

to get closer to you i will make sacrifices

to the goat goddess
to the siren shrimp
to the white crow
to the coral saint

there will be so many denials

i will deny my humanity
she will deny her engagement
they will deny who they are
the world must deny its
shape and color

i have to get closer to you
skin to skin
eye to eye
hand to hand clasping like
a prayer

for there is one thing that i so
badly need

the truth....

mama was silent about it
till she died
grandma says there are things
that one takes to the grave as a matter
of necessity

there are words which need not be said
even if true

because like love when you take it
you can always let it

kill you.