Inside The Room Where We Are Alone Poem by RIC BASTASA

how can i forget you
when we were inside the room
just the two of us
you hinted about love
the fields of desire
insatiable
that wish to be
with you
forever

how can i be so cruel then
not to mind the way your hands
touch mine
the way your tongue slides
something so wet and sweet
in between your lips
to mine

how can i be so foolish
to pretend that this is nothing but a passing of time
a mere slip of the mind
folding upon itself
and then spreading too thinly
upon a numbness
of the bored existentialist

when you close your eyes
so i may kiss you

i look beyond the green fields
i gaze beyond the blue seas

i have fears
that i may finally be lost between your thoughts
in the middle of my oceans of concerns

i may become the ship that sinks
and then be forgotten

i chose indifference
i built a fence
i made a sunless horizon
i vanished the moon
i hid in the silence
in the darkness

i do not know what love is, frankly, anymore.