..What Was.... Poem by RIC BASTASA

i may say
i love you
when you are
inside my
own box

in my own
terms
and conditions


outside the
box
i free you
and you fly
away

how can i
say i love
you when
you fear me?

how can love
love someone
whom it cannot
tame?

so go away
find what you love
and in the same
manner
let it kill you
too

firely, moth,
fire, light
hand, and the
snap....

at the end
death claims
what you love
what loves you
what does not
love
what cannot love
what was