Soon No One Stays Poem by RIC BASTASA

your friends
some of them your lovers
your light in your darkness
soon they shall pack their bags
soon they shall leave
one by one
like the natural death of some flowers along the way that you pick
there are no goodbyes
no notes no letters left on the table or under your lampshade
you cannot hear their footsteps moving away from you
silently they all leave

and you do not ask why
and you do not cry
you know they will all leave you
as they used to do leaving their loved ones too
like the stories they are telling you
incompatibility, utility, loss of love, waking up one day betrayed,
the boredom of acquiantances, the marriage that did not work out,
the broken home, the love that was untrue, the friendship of motives,
unbearability of having this and that in the house,

you have heard them, you get used to them, now, you do not care
you let them go and look for places where they tell the same stories again
again and again, this human frailty, this inability to stay, to stick it out
this search for perfection where
there is none
this seach for the perfect partner
where there is none
this impossibilities of none probabilities

let them go
you have your own peace, at your own pace
your partner,
this imperfection that you sleep with

you do not care now, where they go, what they will say again
and again

you stay, in your silence, you have always stayed.