We Are Not Really Meant For Each Other..... Poem by RIC BASTASA

what we did not agree
was when i invited you
for a bath together

in the secret river of
my love
for you which you have
not felt
how cool is the water
how clear how clean

and so i bathed myself alone
waiting for you
and you never came and then i

lay my body on that rock
i am beneath the sun as i dry
to be warm again

if you only came here
even for once or even for curiosity's sake
you could have felt what love is
how is it to be loved
cleanly and clearly how to flow towards the
sea and be lost into love's
tremendous power

it is when we fuse when we are one
that love comes to take us both
into an anonymity

the rain to the sea
the light of the moon on the grassy hills
the wind to the leaves of the trees
the sands from your hand
falling to the shores of the thousand grains

i am alone now but not seeking you.
i am complete to myself, whole to its solitude
happy with the truth
that we are not really meant for each other.