For You To Trust Me Poem by RIC BASTASA

for you to trust me
i must listen and keep the promise
about your love and your
new lover
not to tell about the fire
burning inside your hearts
and eyes
for you to trust me
i must not be the rain
or the sun
i must not be the river
to sing what you both have kept
as a secret
inside the chimney when the smoke
rises to the skies
i shall only watch
and keep the pains that both of you
too suffer

i have not told you
that in love
goes the joy
goes the pain
and now you must take them all
like water and sand
in your hand