Love Still Hurts. Freedom Yet Has To Smile. Poem by RIC BASTASA

you are the melody
that is constantly playing
in my mind
every day and night
i listen intently asking
why every note of you amazes
me as though this music is
itself an eternity

i wait for the day when this
music stops
when my mind and heart is emptied
of all its nuances

i can soon be a bird flying with
only the air as music for its ears
listening to no one now, not even
love as you would want it.

Love still hurts. Freedom yet has
to smile.