You Taught Me...love

look at me now.

you should have not
taught me
about love,

i regret having met
you

that tryst under the moon
under the heap of the dry leaves
of summer

May 1989
when i stumbled upon
a scent of magnolias

it was your
silence

it made me
human.

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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