Time Runs Fast To A Person Who Loves Poem by RIC BASTASA

when you love
you give it all, like you take all your senses for the one you love
and then you surrender
love takes all you have
while you just wait and see how everything in you is taken away
you shall experience pain
temporarily during the taking of everything you have
and when everything is taken away
you become so light and so empty
again that is temporary
time runs too fast
the clock ticks
its hands run like an overspeeding car on the freeway
then love comes back to you
full of longing and full of everything
for you

you become so full again
feeling better
and you want to give away everything again
on this day
on the other days to come

because of love, you love and always you have known
what giving is
what giving everything away means