For No Other Use Or Purpose... Poem by RIC BASTASA

they ask that between us
there should be no purpose

or this asking for a use
some benefits

that there is but friendship
that begs not even for time

that memory that simply rests
and then takes upon itself another

journey to a place reserved
for those who are classified as

useless because they serve for no
use but only for the sake of

beauty, the mere grandeur
and nothing in particular

nothing for return of investments
just the gaze, the compassion.