China Poem by Derrick Puente

Your silence impervious
What good do tears or pleas
My heart imperious
In truth men are enmity
Towards goodness and reason
Imposing only self
What good is a marriage
When emptiness is felt
The pattern if tragic
And ode to Euripides
Impulse had met freedom
In another's ecstasies
For this we are broken
But we were cracked before
The dishes are shattered
Through the apartments floors
The ashes are modern
10 packs of cigarettes
The phrases are hollow
Devoid of sentiments
Insulated unhappiness
Loves been sacrificed
You have your Voodoo
And I my Hanging Christ
You have your keeping
Silence as a wall
And nothing will break it
Nor the distance of the halls
That separates us like China's
Great unyielding stone
Marriage is voided
Defaulted in the loan
The one we had wagered
Would give surety to try
But there is no saving-
There is only goodbye.