You Are Always Electrifying Poem by RIC BASTASA

by the simple touch of your fingers
accidental intimacy like bumping on the street
and then quickly
parting ways like you don't know me and i do not know you
this pretense of strength
of white cranes suddenly in motion to the skies
as i clap my hands near the lushing cogon grass

oh they fly, oh they fly like white pebbles thrown to the sea
and then they are gone

i get electrified the moment i see you
(how can i ever tell you about
this secret that grows like a cancerous mole on my face?)

sizzling simply sizzling this feeling
of loving with the loved one not knowing anything
why flowers bloom and then die
why the leaves are falling

the white cranes in the rice fields this June
oh how they flap and fly like white pebbles thrown to the sea
perfect flight of silent love
my eyes are so delighted
my heart sings
it has never known how to scream

in silence i gaze at you and then you walk away
the street where you walk narrows down like a throat choking