I'Ll Wait When You Finally Say, You Don'T Love Me Anymore Poem by RIC BASTASA

i will not be dumb but i will be very patient
i know how to figure out
to decipher glances and appearances
the way your finger moves when you hand me
my clothes the way you find disgust in my underwear
but i will not waste any of the words i have saved
for the years i will keep them locked with key

your dreams are no longer my dreams
somehow we no longer look in the same direction
as we used to
gazing in the stars at night and giving them names
when we say
i love you and i love you too

some stars fell and you tell me they are but meteorites
ordinary occurences, and they do not mean any wishes
i can tell the changes in the skies
i can tell the coming of the storm and i am always prepared for them

there will be no surprises
when you will call me by my name and you say you want
a heart to heart talk
something to shake me but i will listen attentively
you will have no questions
just mere declarations about the river that dried
about the fish that died and you counted them all

there are no stars to light this darkness
this room where the air is free to go from window to window
i will wait when you will finally say
what i already know and i will be patient

then you must go and then i must as a solemn duty
close this door and never shall i open it again

i will not watch you go and dissolve in a distance
i will not cry, i am saving my tears for the right occasion

the tears of joy and this happiness that finally
in my solitude i still love myself
(you will never know, how i have waited for this moment)