I Am All Set With You Poem by RIC BASTASA

there is drama when i first
saw you. I ask for a woman with a
red rose on her hand
and it was you holding this

red rose one early morning
and it set the beginning

of my day with you. we married.
we stayed on.
12 years. moving on
to 25 years.

we keep the laughter
and the giggle
each night we tell
stories

how we begin
always...

in this book of love,
we do not know how to tell the story
of an ending....

perhaps we must learn to write
about a fairy tale

how to keep ourselves
happy ever after

how to say the clinching lines
of a happy ending.