(1) Uncut Diamond

I rushed headlong into the street merely to gaze upon her feet as she lifted them into a taxi. She was with another man, a handsome rogue who could only mean her harm but she made her decisions and her retreat. A stranger saw the pain chiseled into my face as if by Michelangelo, he touched my arm and said, let her go, she's beautiful but deadly, I'm speaking as a father. But I'm always in a desperate search for new hopes and plans; I'm always seeking out previously unknown and exotic deities to unscramble my existence with some altered and far-flung exhilarating destiny. There are strange intoxicating people in the world, women and perfume that can drive a man into the utter extremes of madness until all notions of rationality become extinct. The taxi drives away, perhaps this is final humiliation and defeat! Perhaps, it is just one more adventure beneath a heartless moon finding me in violent pursuit of seemingly an unobtainable uncut diamond, but once again, I'm more than prepared to stagger drunkenly into this despair. 5: 06AM 12-3-2016