A Poem a day in May

Might be starting a day or three late but better late than June.
After watching the effort being made by Danna Richards and her friends for the Song a Day in May: Song a Day in May
here is a direct links for a few of them:
Paper Dragons

Well you get the picture, anyway, I hope she will allow me this small promotion of her ability.

and now to business.

A POEM A DAY IN MAY!!!

(3 DAYS BEHIND)

Poem #1 

Hard

Like rocks, like stones, like chalk white bones

my emotions fall against the wall of the world

with thunderous rush of impact 

 like water, like balls of icy hail in the howling wind

Like tears, like the passage of years, like days in the rain

any sense of reason, decisions are blocked 

with cold precision of well placed pain

like repetition of the ever present prescience of the fall of rain

I am hard, I am hard

on the street, under the heat of the unforgiving sun, 

I am hard, I am hard

without humor, without joy, I feel nothing but the passage

of my feet on the run

Like the fleeting footfalls fleeing my own despair

my soul would retreat, retrieve what is lost

with the heavy heartbeats as my blood is spun

out of control out of my control

Like the end of life worth living, like the fear that cheats my breath

all chances of ending are little more than futile

without any mending this ruin of rending

like the droplets of words written without wonder, without death.

I am hard, I am hard

like a rock, like a derelict house on an abandoned island

I am less, I am less

than perfection allows, I hold within me the haunted 

shadows of the meaning this poem demands.