For Both Of You Whom I Love Equally Poem by RIC BASTASA

i love you both
equally and that is the truth that i must reveal
the kiss i kissed you is the same kiss
equally warm as the kiss i have kissed
to the other

the love i give you
is the same love i give

to both of you
you know that
you feel that and so you
do not complain
or whine or murmur

and the other too
who waits for me
when i am with you
understands
feels that

like the way
i spread my warmth on this bed
my smile and laughter in this room

both of you must understand
i have given much more
than anybody can
and for one who give more and much more
must be more than generous more than loving than
anyone can be
on this earth
under the sun

how can i sin then, i who had given more and much
that what is normally required?

from mere pebbles on the rough road of my life
both of you my love
true loves of my heart
shall rise, and rise and rise until you become

my lovely stars
as i watch and stay grounded for having loved
unusually, tirelessly,
exceedingly than what is normally required

my wings with a span as lengthy and wide as the night
shall always remember
the serenity and perfection of these
unusual dual union

the warmth we shared the warmth we all enjoyed
the togetherness that for sometime
society detests