- Non-Erotic Poetry
- Mechanical Emotions
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Preface. “Mechanical Emotions” is the first in an occasional series of poems, most of which are too personal to publish.
This first one I wrote 25 years ago. It was a fictional poem that turned quite prophetic, as two failed marriages proved.
The second poem is along similar lines.
The third in the series is a love poem to my then wife, written six years ago
Hope you enjoy.
Jessica, Aug 2009
Our love has become but a statue:
Sculpted beautifully and with sincerity
But cold on the inside and out.
It may last forever, as a diamond,
But remain a cold and hard lie.
Or it may crumble like sandstone
And become the emptiness it truly is.
The museum won’t display our statue
Because sculptures are crafted with love:
Ours is a substitute for the same.
We’re going through with out mechanical emotions
Like two tin-pot soldiers or two actors upon the stage;
We’re hoping that the other won’t notice our eyes
As “I love you” becomes a lie.
Even the statue is now tarnished.
The cold white has become just cold
And the cracks are starting to appear.
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