You Said You Fear Love Poem by RIC BASTASA

you said you fear love now
for yesterday it has betrayed you

and you almost died
alone and bleeding
not healing quickly
like what others do
with their wounds

you fear love and you promised
not to hurt yourself once more

you're extra careful
you learned your lesson and true
you shy away from love
and when it gets near you
you shoo it away like a little bird
calling your name by your window

you refuse the rose i sent you
you close your door
you wear a veil to hide your eyes your tears
you always walk behind me
and then change your way
simply to avoid me

i am tired and lonely and sick of your evasions
i write this letter and leave you a note:

my dear try hate, why not try having so much hate?
or jthese slices of indifference
taste them all and swallow them whole
try all these reverses
and then tell me what is the difference.