The Stairs Shall Fall To Be Part Of The Dust Again. Poem by RIC BASTASA

the correct rule is
non-attachment

this room cannot
be mine forever

i must know as
early as this

that soon times and
things and people
change

like you and i,
not much intimacy

let there be distance
like pillars of a house
to make
us all stable

that when the time
to say goodbye happens

there will be no tears
there will be nothing
simultaneous as death

of
one and
then the other

for by then the room
will be perfectly empty
and the stairs shall fall
to be part of the dust
again.