The Jealous Other Woman Poem by RIC BASTASA

when i told her
that we are taking the suite
at the hotel
where we will be spending
three days
alone with ourselves
on a mode of rediscovering
flames
she responded with

hmmmm

as though i am
the liar
trying to make the other woman
envious
about an old love
trying to rekindle
what has long been
and supposedly
been dead

please understand

i am trying to
walk on the path of light

away from the darkness
of our hidden sins