It Has Nothing To Do With Love... Poem by RIC BASTASA

i did not say i love you
coz i could not say it
i could not say i love you
coz it is not true, and you
know that, with the way
i kiss you the way i hold your
hand, the way i sit beside you
the way i sleep.

i do not say i love you
coz it is too hard to prove it
i am a free man
and love demands that i
surrender my hands for you
to bind.
i cannot say i love you
because i cannot love you that
much, for i am just human
and weak and changing.

today i am a rock, tomorrow a
butterfly, now i am a river
tomorrow i could be the rain.

i am here with you
beside you, but i will not say i love you.
i am human and i am changing.
that is the truth, and i bow to this
i am an arrow and love is there
ready to shoot me anywhere.