How Can Someone Ever Leave You? Poem by RIC BASTASA

how can someone be so vile
to leave someone as good
and as beautiful as you?

try to remember if you have met
that someone even once

where and when and how?
and why?

why must he leave someone as
good and as beautiful
and as truthful
as you?

unless, it was you who left him
because he never showed up
even as a shadow.

yes, when someone loves
unrequited, in fact,
i always remember that
red rose for Emily beside
the lover's skull.

The town is so silent
that i hear the fall of a leaf
on a grass so soft and yet
so indifferent.