"cooley" poems
Can't seem to put my finger on it, but love maybe a little defiant. I believe love try to be a reckless when it won't to be, how could you describe me meeting you? So you telling me that we met only by coincidence; or do dreams really come true? Never in a million years I'll believe love will send me one of god most gorgeous angels, love keep trying time and time again to make me open up and let it in, but a constant fight keeps it out. I wish someone would have told me love is defiant to the end, because love again love wins.
Kelsey D. Cooley Sr.
Aug 1, 2013
Aug 1, 2013 at 4:06 AM UTC
on this day in 1969, Denton Cooley implemented the first artificial heart
into a human whose nature was slowly failing and falling apart
blood barely pumping under electric skin
fake skin pumping blues under rubber valves and tubes
it kept his breath for
64 hours.
I imagine his family watched the light leave his eyes
and not even love or divine intervention
could beat him back to equilibrium
wires surging through him
your body is not science project
it's a miracle
but I guess it's conditional
because some people see the light too soon
when not even artificial life
can keep you from dying
even with robotic models
clinking clanking
subconscious
pounding veins into submission
keep this miracle alive
revived
it's not cheating Mother Nature
it's not cheating your life
beating pressed against the odds
artificial body
artificial feelings
love
isn't even a feeling
it's a combination of chemicals
connected in your brain
but I wonder if that human felt his rubber heart breaking
when he saw the tears in the eyes of his family
these aren't emotions
imitation life can fake
even though not all of me is here,
I still feel like nothing ever left me
they didn't know
I would leave so soon
64 hours
I could wake up a robot
I could wake up a miracle
either way
I'll be gone in 32 more hours
when a brand new heart
infects my blood
you didn't finish the job
but you held me over
beating on my chest for me
blue blood pumping
but I guess I forgot how to do it on my own
when my own heart should have never even left me
Jun 30, 2014
Jun 30, 2014 at 3:28 AM UTC
Rich by the way I am, not the things I have. A man, not because of how many women I can **** or how far my nuts hang, but by the love I have for God and the things I have learned by the bad decisions I as a man have made in life. I smile because there's nothing to frown about. I'm powered by the driven goals God have set for me to complete the this world. I work hard because elder men work hard so I can do what I do today, therefore I will sacrifice the same. I am who I am and that's the way it is.
Kelsey D. Cooley Sr.
Jun 10, 2013
Jun 10, 2013 at 11:52 PM UTC