The Happiness Of Both.... Poem by RIC BASTASA

sooner you leave
and take with you
all your things and
our memories,

i have no word for
this, and i shall keep
it to myself.

i shall be free.
my love is a black bird
migrating to
the other side of myself.

i shall be free,
perhaps i will say
i will miss you but
i never mean it to be.

you leave me and
i want you to
with a kind heart.

you will be with the
one you truly love,
and you may think
this shall hurt, but no.

the love i gave you
was never returned with
love.
and i am no fool for
this,
as when love is unloved,
love soon shall be gone
too.

i will be free at last,
and you too shall be.
and here, from now on,
both of us shall be happy.