When The Love Is About To Melt Poem by RIC BASTASA

for the things that
you conceal
i console

for those which you
want to save
let me help conceal
let us help them heal

i've seen your latest
post in facebook
a picture of one hugging
the other
arms tight around the body
of one who is choked by
love

i like that smile
full of hope like beer
bubbling to life
in a mug
cold as ice

it is alright
i understand how is it to feel
that love is about
to be gone

i was there
i can relate but i survived
somehow
i think i know now how

i will join you in that
fantasy
how can love grow so cold
despite the
tropical conditions of the
heart?

tonight i will wait for you
in the usual place
i got beer
Red Horse ready to kick us
out of our
mutual sorrows.