I Love You Everyday Poem by RIC BASTASA

how would you know that everyday i love you
secretly
like my diary always written in some ciphers
the longings
not open like the fields visible always to the clouds
i like to bleed but it would
be too unbecoming of my being
a part
of this society who installed gods and goddesses
out of us
victims of morality and
restraint

i make earnest glances and sometimes
i make my gaze stand still to take a closer
and longer look at your face

and then i say, i love every angle of
your cheeks and nose and eyes where i melt
like an ice drop
all my sweetness
dripping
down the drain

consumed am i
and you did not even notice
me,
as the single stick remaining
all the ice
wasted, all my sugar thrown
to the cold soil
the frigid ground, the indifference that stabs
me right
in front of you