if you should leave
if you should leave me
i won't fall crying in the dirt
nor chase you through a thorned rose garden.
if you should leave me
i won't call you back
or write you poems like this one.
and if you leave me, i'll let you go
because that is what is best for you:
to leave me.
and when you come back,
that will be best for me-
who yelps like a puppy finding his bone.
john lino ponzini
november 2009
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem