About My Wife Poem by RIC BASTASA

what i lack she fills it
and when she's full with what i lack
she comes back
and gives me that smile that reminds me
of a flower everlasting
a life eternal
a love that stays put even when
the floors are trembling
due to that emptiness between
those dirt that insert
between one floor slab to another
she walks carefully on those shiny floors
not to disturb
the shaky foundation

she keeps the word
forever in her bosom
and what you can find there are only
the memories
those good ones
the bad ones
long discarded into the bins
burned

she knows what must be forgiven and forgotten
to keep the fires of love burning

and when the fire is gone when every nook in the room is cold
she hides inside my arms

like some kitten to the embrace of the cat
on those dark and very cold nights