I Say I Will Always Be Here For You Poem by RIC BASTASA

you left me
and i search for the reasons
from every place where we have been to
those squeaky beds cannot tell
what was it exactly that you have been missing
the blankets no longer smell our sweat
and they no longer grasp what
they used to brag

that i have
and you say you really like
they have shun
mouths and tongues
and they all keep
what they do not know

somehow i come back
to my senses
and feel the same love i share with you
i still feel the warmth of my kisses
i still have the dignity of my hugs
the purity of my love
that you discard

and if by chance you read these lines
i say
i will always be here waiting for you

on white hair on long beard on a mind
that would have been willing to forget