Or I Want You Perhaps To Be Free.... Poem by RIC BASTASA

after 35 years of
being together
we survived because
of all those distractions

until this period of
quarantine when what we see
and feel is only ourselves
just the two of us now
and we see the truth
the harshest truth ever
the one we never speak about
because it will hurt and because
it can split us both and
this is now about to happen
and i am not doing anything
about it.

i am flowing to this river
i do not know where it will take me
but i am allowing it because perhaps
i just want to be free....