you’ll never know the esteem i hold you in
how badly i want to kiss your sacred heart
hold it and feel the gentle glow
i’ll eventually bruise it
but i swear i will never break it
i’m irrevocably broken
and that is something i could never do to you
your sacred heart
il tuo sacro cuore
how it calls to me
il tuo sacro cuore mi chiama
take my evil heart
il mio cuore malvagio
can you hear it calling back
il mio cuore malvagio, puoi sentirlo chiamare ba
can you make it pure
with the touch i long for
i’ll tape it together
make it presentable for you
i understand
if no
how can i expect you to
i’m not worthy of your grace
just another scribe in a sea of suitors
taken in by your light
least of the lesser
compared to your brilliance
another falling star
toppling ever farther
down
Mike's Manic Word Depot 
Poetry is truly subjective. We see it from our own perspective. You write beautifully. Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you. I appreciate it only you reading but taking the time to comment
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Oh my heart! My heart! Yes!! This is how I feel too. Sometimes I think a lot of us do, really. But you said it beautifully. Especially these lines, for me:
“i’m irrevocably broken
and that is something i could never do to you
your sacred heart”
Yep. That’s how I feel. On one hand I want deep reciprocated love and one the other I can’t imagine pushing myself off on someone else. I call myself a doomed romantic. Because I want love and want love for others but I don’t want to push my filth off onto anyone else. *sigh* So, yeah, I get this.
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i’m gonna become approximately one fiftieth less self loathing if you continue this understanding. dammit. but that is exactly it. i want to tell her that she has me wrapped so tightly around her finger but i’ll just mess it up.
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Just…. let it go and let it flow, my friend. Easier said than done, I know. Believe me… I know.
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Mike, bless your heart. Everyone is irrevocably broken! Not a one of us are ever the same after the first time that we feel hurt? We all fall in love to give, and receive love. Our gift of healing for the irrevocably broken! Absolutely gorgeous poetry!
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i’m just hoping to find one broken in a way our pieces fit together. one that can push me find that next level. someone that hears the words sing in a compatible way. that way we can make love through prose for the world to read. like trying to carry water with a net. as always, thank you for your kind words. today has been a down day and i feel like there will be an outpouring before i can i explode.
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(((Mike)))You are made of love and passion. Two amazing and maddening emotions which have made you a great poet! Lovers online, especially poets, live in torment. I believe many ladies would love to collaborate romantic words with you! They may understand about the agony felt when words will be all there is? You are a master at writing, everything will fall into place. Romantic poetry is very personal to me, the wording, the seductiveness of it. I keep it to myself. I am though working on a poem about you, the poet! It will take me time though, I have a lot going on here in my neck of the woods! I’m sorry that your day was not a bright one! Write your outstanding, world rocking poetry!
The world awaits!
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oh goodness. i don’t know if i’ve ever been made into a subject before. i am honored beyond words that a maestro such as yourself would even consider my meager talents worthy. humbled.
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