About You (How Disappointed I Was) Poem by RIC BASTASA

what happened to me
you never predicted
it was like the story of
the ugly duckling

despite the weakness of
my past
the hardness of the stones
(the unfeeling body)
and the shortness of the
vision of that horizon
i have remained
more than what i am

i must have disappointed you
who never think that
success may come to someone
without the royalty of
the lines of the palms

it is i
who is severely disappointed
for you never changed

your mind has always
been a door closed

your heart
a stone house without windows