Nothing Lasts Forever - Poem by RIC S. BASTASA

everything
dissolves, fades

ice, sunlight,
love, hate,

indifference
cannot last

my love cannot
last without you

my longings
too cannot outlast

my capacity to
survive at last

pain pierces like
a needle in my arms

but at the end of
my fingers they

all know the exit
and close the door

of my nails, like
happy endings.