You Will Feel The Loss, Poem by RIC BASTASA

the usual sands slipping from your fingers,
love's departure, much painful than love's death,
a dog run-over by a car, your dog,
not much about a bad debt, or a friend betraying you,
or someone you have not even met but
somehow you have felt from far,
silly matters make you feel it too,
opportunities not grabbed, doors you have not
even knocked, a would be lover whom you
have decided to forgo,
so many losses, yet one thing that you must
never lose,
yourself, because when you lose it,
you will never feel it again.

you feel the loss of a falling leaf,
say to yourself, it is usual and it is just a leaf anyway.
or that key which fell on the canal, that bird which you let go,
that food which you did not eat, that
new shirt which does not really feet because you now
have a big tummy, and so on and so forth,
yet one thing i must tell you, be responsible on these losses,
ignore, and forget, you must learn
this choices.

otherwise, you will lose yourself, and that will be the last
thing to lose and never find again