A Song For Myself... Poem by RIC BASTASA

shall i ask myself
again the same question

shall i stop? do i have
a word for quitting?

shall i lie to myself
about this exhaustion

this exasperation for
another desperation?

how can life refuse living?
i have sided with life

and will always be on its
side despite. So here i

am and you are bored and
shall soon disregard my

pleadings. But don't you
worry and do not mind

i had always been alone
be it dancing under the


moon or swimming at night
in the nearby lake

i am pleased with myself
and shall live with myself

soon i will forget you
and will not remember any

thing about you. I have
long learned this:

i am a stone. I am
a rock. I am another

island, another lonely
song. Do not mind me.

For i am just myself.
without you.