If You Love Somebody Poem by RIC BASTASA

if you love somebody
you will surely miss that

somebody, no matter how you keep
that somebody inside your mind
unable to say a name

or draw a face or remember a scent
no matter how you bury that

somebody, that somebody always comes
alive in your memory that

somebody always comes face to face with
you
a smile of that

somebody a touch of that
somebody
in your dream that

somebody comes and reminds you
of a love that is true

of a kiss that is real
of the night when you made love without uttering any name

just symbols
of a rose
a dew

and some thorns about that somebody
who loves you
and that somebody
whom you also truly love

now in the symbol of a thorn
a heartache

always a forgetting and a memory that refuses to leave
a remembering

just symbols now
a wind a dark night a hush a flitting thought