On Finally Parting Ways..... Poem by RIC BASTASA

i like your face
heart-shaped and lovely

i like your skin
smooth and clean and gentle

i love your body
it is giving me fire all day

i think i love you
i whisper to myself and

i keep it to myself
not to bother you

love is in the air
love is shaping inside my mind

somehow i must be strong
and keep my dignity

i think i love you
but i think it is not fair

i do not deserve you and
you do not deserve me

love may have been conceived
but there are rules of society

i think i love you but
i cannot love you

this will be fair enough
we talk and we do not bother

after this precious moment
we part ways again

we love each other deep in
our hearts, but it is not fair

there is no justice for this
and so we must part ways.....