That Which Completes What We Have Not Seen.... Poem by RIC BASTASA

the sweetness of you
lies in the pain which shows
inside your hands
that i've touched and felt
with so much love

why did i only love you?
why did this love give you more
of the pain that
you suffered
in utter silence.

why does love have to be this way
at this time
at this moment
when you left and created so much
void within
me?

our sweetness lies in this separation
like a flower taken from its stalk
whose petals are removed one by one by
the hands of a playful child
and left in every step that it has taken
like some kind of a broken
path which leaves some blank spaces
that fills
that completes what is not seen.