Love Poem: Cartography of Love
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Written by: Ernest Robles

Cartography of Love

I.

ROMANCE begins 
with a supernovae
 as two

hearts decrease space between
walls and fears; the ice-floe
of painful life melts,

once powerful thoughts and
conviction now powerless,
against a force of Nature

If Lust then a brilliant lit
moment;  if by divine guidance
True Love as eternal.

II.

Ages and Time and Ages roll by
the music plays upon hours 
and thoughts as ivory keys;

   fear burning minors of 
weeping fossil time
four walls closing within me

The loneliness of a fractured
 soul and it's heart's broken
shattered pieces bleeding

    blurring terms of surrender
;the etiquette of death:
  none shall bury raw feelings into the ground

III.

All industries of silence
rituals and formalities

they burn deeply 
they weep tears

life as muteness 
rigorously executed

the form of History
a blueprint of Life.

IV.

my Hand deeply within the bowls
of my gaping Mouth!  Offensive to me!

an ode begun in grief and anger
now mired within surrealism -- abstract!

a hole dug deeper and larger than Mind
a Mind deeper and larger than holes!

i scream with my illegitimate voice
raped, pillaged, torn, and sworn

  by lovers, brothers, father and mother
my soul's water broken -- still born 

   you cannot answer useless questions.

:: 04-11-2019 ::