Let It Be Said.... Poem by RIC BASTASA

Let it be said Jane
that i
have preferred silence
over
Adele's
songs of remorse,

that i have taken
distance
rather than
the intimacy

that i have chosen
pain
and embraced the coldness
of isolation

that i shall travel alone
and that i have
shut my ears
so that i can hear nothing
about what is being
said
about myself.

Let it be declared
that i do not care
about rising

that i have chosen
the dignity of
my fall

that i have triumphed
without
anybody's
knowing......