Would Today Be Happier? Poem by RIC BASTASA

what if
i have let you touched me
if i have closed my eyes
and simply
worked on the feeling

what if
i simply let time
caress my
emptiness and
had it filled by
your
love

what if i just let the feeling
flow like a river
and never thought of the
the obstructions of
the conformity

what if i went with you
towards the deepest ocean

could i have made perhaps
a difference?


if i did not refuse it
would today be happier?

it took me years
to know that you have this space
inside my heart
reserved for you

my heart was then made of
stone.