The metal in this brass knuckle heart
punches my chest from the inside out

The valves, a semiconductor for the static
electricity of your touch

Who ever thought a defibrillator could be so soft?

And in the challenge of this love
I wonder what kind of mettle you're thinking
of now

And I think patience is found
on a molecular level inside the iron
in your blood

And love then, a stone ground down
from your ashes

I mean, pressure and heat are
what diamonds are made from

Tell me again of the struggles you shone through

And through that logic, we are precious stones
but so much softer than that

I want to hold you like the focused light
from a jeweler trying to make a sale
but so much more earnest than that

And what of the contradiction
between hardness
and softness

Because there is you

How can you be so hard
and so full of life?

How can you be so beautiful?

My father is an old truck
Sunbleached red

Breathes broken bottles
A faulty catalytic converter throat
All the smoke trapped inside

But the nicotine helps his brain function

Cinderblock sturdy
But skinny
A single pillar holding the roof up

A man built in a time when you had to tell things it was time to die
Leave them in a field somewhere and forget about

How do you write a love poem to a car of a man
Built in a time without airbags?
A car of a man who crashed with you inside so many times
You learned about rebuilding from experience
From trial and error

And how do you forgive a man who can no longer tell you he’s sorry?

Trucks
Don’t feel
Don’t give up
Don’t hurt you on purpose

Sometimes something inside just breaks
And no one catches it
And maybe you crash
Break a nose
Black an eye

As far as I know
I am not a broken man
But I’ve learned where all the parts go

And if I am my father’s son
A mechanic more often than a car maybe
Then I will be fine

The truck is dying
And beyond repair

You forgive it for that
It is old and past its time

And maybe it can’t say that it’s sorry

But there is a field somewhere that you plan on leaving it
To collect weeds
And rust
And be forgotten

So you forgive it

I wonder
how our great creator
built a vessel
strong enough
to contain my soul?

Each day my spirit fights
against my skin with violent
jolts as a young bird
seeking exit from a cage.

Unfettered psyche
free from me
bounces among clouds
rolls through deserts,
climbs volcanic ridges
migrates with birds in flight.

Curious instincts guide
my vital force inside and out
like honey bees
scour zinnias in full bloom.

Dare I release my spirit today?

When I walk alone I walk like a fighter ready to fight and everyone shift to let me move on .

When I walk with my partner I walk like a king and look at her like my Queen.

Smiling, shaking hands ,hugging each other like a kids playing tennis ball rolling down fighting to catch it with their hands.

Being respected by everyone ,Mr and Mrs become our first names followed by our surnames.

Every creature said wow what a wonderful couple.
Families bond together like no separation will take place.

Unhappy times one will walk two meters from another ,like they naver met each other.

After a while ,where a thunderstorm destroyed it return to finish the work it started

Walking distance is painful.
Keep walking together
Far is where we come from
If we look back we will never reach our journey

When I am hungry I eat poetry.
When I am thirsty I drink poetry.
When I am angry I fight poetry.
When some body make a joke I laugh poetry.

Being in need of relationship I propose poetry.
Resting and  playing I do poetry.
My life is poetry and I  will die poetry

Poetry is my healer.
Heal me and mend my broken heart.
During stress its becoming my reliever.

When I am happy I sing it.
In sad moments it is my comforter.
Every head node when I speak it
Smile when I read it.
Laugh when I joke it.

I will live with it
Because is my food that keep me going .

You are my shining star.
In the morning you wake me up.
At night you appear to bright on top of my head and the darkness covered me like a blanket so that I can have a peaceful sleep.

Everyone is pointing the finger on you, but they can't hold you because you are mine.

Your beauty stole my heart.
Then I choose you between the moon and the sun.

The clouds tryed to close my way so that I can't view your image,but you kept running away from them because you knew I was the one.

You are the most wonderful star I ever got and you will always be my heart.