Porcelain Heart
by Josh LaMar


This porcelain heart
will not survive another
breaking.  

Cracked and super-glued
twice over: 
no tears left.  
See me for who I am.
Embrace me.  
I need to be held.  
Just (Please!) do not hurt me.  

This porcelain heart
will not survive another
breaking.  

My body is exposed 
to your knives of words.  
Your actions stab me
before everyone's eyes.  

I would love you
till the dregs from this clay vessel,
taste sweet, 
drank up voracious-tender 
China-hopes dashed
by a whim.  

Crawling out de Profundis
I will stand again.  
One day learn strength
yet remain the 
man of sorrows,
acquainted with grief.  

This porcelain heart
will not survive another

breaking.