The Discontentment Of The Heart.... Poem by RIC BASTASA

it had taken me quite a long time
for you to understand
my love,

for years you were like a wild horse
roaming in the desert
looking for the forest
or the oasis,

i was like a cloud wanting to shade
you from the sun
and sometimes in my sadness wanting
to give you
my rain,

until then we met and made love and you
fully understand whati mean
to my bliss,

and then fear comes, this nature of men,
mine, that state of having taken the flower
that wilts in my hand,
and had to be thrown away

the domesticated horse that does not please
me anymore,
my own sadness of being empty again,
a cloud still looking for the sand,
that i could still rain
upon.