To Know What Is Real From The Unreal Poem by RIC BASTASA

when they finally
sleep together

and they did this for years
and will continue doing so
for all the years to come

she finds him walking on a bridge
as the wild and unreasonable waters rage under

and then he jumps into the river
and he is gone and she wakes up
profusely sweating as though she too
is about to be taken

and

to know what is real from the unreal
she holds his hands

now more tightly than ever