Sad And Beautiful Lines Of An Emailed Poem Poem by RIC BASTASA

i read again and again
the poem you sent me thru email

it is sad, beautifully sad,
like sunset, then the moon less the stars

it speaks about the universe
our humanity our capacity to transcend
misfortune

i like the way it builds itself
how it starts as lock of hair and then
transforms itself into a human form
like how a womb evolves
into a woman's only girl

i read it again and again looking
for that happy angle that possibility of

us, but there is nothing there
where i can fill my emptiness the way you
squander love into the sea

like words spoken without the heart
in the last line love still does not exist.