....Pendulum..... Poem by RIC BASTASA

for i cannot keep you
and i really like this to go
this ambivalence that loops
from hate to love and back
to love and hate again and
there's this euphemism for indifference
that sweetness of a pretension that
you are you and you are strong and
cannot be affected anymore, i like this
finished, but how can i? for there you
are in that simplest splendor, innocence
which i love since i lost it moons ago
with someone who can never love me for
what i am.