(1) Uncut Diamond Poem by Uriah Hamilton

I rushed headlong into the street
merely to gaze upon her feet
as she lifted them into a taxi.

She was with another man,
a handsome rogue who could only mean her harm
but she made her decisions and her retreat.

A stranger saw the pain chiseled into my face
as if by Michelangelo,
he touched my arm and said, let her go,
she's beautiful but deadly, I'm speaking as a father.

But I'm always in a desperate search
for new hopes and plans;
I'm always seeking out previously unknown and exotic deities
to unscramble my existence
with some altered and far-flung exhilarating destiny.

There are strange intoxicating people in the world,
women and perfume that can drive a man
into the utter extremes of madness
until all notions of rationality become extinct.

The taxi drives away, perhaps this is
final humiliation and defeat!
Perhaps, it is just one more adventure
beneath a heartless moon
finding me in violent pursuit
of seemingly an unobtainable uncut diamond,
but once again, I'm more than prepared
to stagger drunkenly into this despair.

5: 06AM 12-3-2016