A Memory Of 1980,14th Day Of February Poem by RIC BASTASA

14th, February,1980

at the university
chemistry laboratory
the last experiment
of the year

loveless and too
careless

she sent a rose
i did not bother

she called on the phone
i was not there

she was loveless
in an island

i was too busy
in my thesis for my last year

i sent her the card
without telling her that it's goodbye

her friends had to leave her
each had the love partner on that day

i was alone in the lab
without any love

too many sacrifices
not worth remembering

a heart broken
beyond repair

a soul wandering
still lost with the black raven

too many years of pain
nothing really gained