You Come This Morning And Touch My Weakness Poem by RIC BASTASA

you two come this morning
searching the secret place in my body where my weakness lies
you gaze at me, like both of you are siamese twins
you scan my skin, you listen carefully to the beatings of my heart
you move your nose trying to figure out the smell
of that secret place

you frisk me, you strangle my hair hoping to find the secret
between the locks of my hair
on top of my forehead and behind the skull covered with
thick skin,

you try so hard to find what i am
what you find is what i am not because your hearts are hardened
by what you are not, in all the years that we have parted

i also listen to the beatings of your hearts
and in there there is no more sound of compassion

this time you must leave, i am locking my door.