Shutting You Out Of My Life Poem by RIC BASTASA

i hear you speak
i like it.

It is past however
&
there is this fear
that with you in my life

i may cease
to be what i am.

so i think at night

if like a bulb by the kitchen
door outside the house,
i should switch you off
the one that
sometimes we like to forget
doing.

if i continue adoring you
i will be lost
and if i allow this for more
days,
i may not find myself again.

so i shut you out
the way i close a window
the way i pull
the drapes from the ceiling
to the floor
to put back the cool shade of
dark,

you must understand
i could be
my own disaster too.