Love's Betrayal.... Poem by RIC BASTASA

consider me
an expert on the techniques
of love's betrayal
you who do not trust the wind
and the sea
lives on the song of the
seashells
the years die
time shrinks like bread
without yeast
in your mind i have always been
the traitor
my hands tremble
i could have said more words
to appease
the stone in you
but you left like a bird with a broken
wing
you fell in the middle of the sea
gone
like a pebble thrown
from a cruise in the waves of
the Indian Ocean