I Don't Mind.... Poem by RIC BASTASA

DESPITE
what you did
(you cheated me)
am still here
i need your love
let me love
you then

despite the
humiliation
how you shamed
me
am still here
to love you

for i am the
giver and
you are the
taker

for i am love
and not hate
for i am
in unity with
myself
and not in the breaking
of your
shaking

am here if you
are broken
call my name
am here
to love you
even if
you still do not
love me

that is love
that is giving

i let go doves
to fly away
in the air

i wait at night
time
i don't mind
if they come back
and roost
again in the
branching trees of my
heart