A Covenant Among Ourselves... Poem by RIC BASTASA

i know i am good
i know i am beautiful
and you know that too and we meet in a party
full of friends
and i see love and hope and the zest for life
among us in this small circle

we know what love is
we do it somehow in giving and laughing and in the
slow sips of our drinks
like the way we handle each moment of our lives
what we had kept and treasured
what we have not wasted and thrown away

i know you are good
and i know how wonderful have you become
i have noted each moment
each change for the better
i always love to see you
confident in your ways
and gentle in your actions

i salute you for all the respect and dignity
we keep this accord among ourselves
in this circle of life
and it won't be long and we all part ways
but it will just be for this moment
of joys marked and bliss drawn

we believe in the life after
the eternal and the perfect ending
and so we never worry
about the here and then
we are human, we are divine
we have loved, we love and we shall never cease.