You Are... Poem by RIC BASTASA

you are more attracted to my grief
you listen to my sad song
and you keep on reading the
sonorous
sorrow of my poetry

is it the principle of unlike poles
attract
or is this the metaphysical way of
keeping us together
in the same boat of misery

remember we have not written
when we celebrated life
we jumped with joy our pens fell
we danced in circles our papers were
stamped upon by our dirty feet

remember we are in this together
within the grips of grief
our fragile bodies curl and bend
in prayer.