From "The Floetic Heart of Rene Reyes"

In the dead silence
My heart recited your name
I find myself again in waiting
as the conspiracy between
my soul and spirit wrestles
this body of mine to the
cold and dusty ground

I am as arid as the desert
and His rib that formed me
is slowly cracking and crumbling
to where the splinters are splicing
through the bony frail cartilage
which use to protect me
from unforeseen pain

Now you left me exposed
to the bruising side of you
the angle which believes
that hiding truths of newest adventures
might cause me to become forlorn and die

I'm not pure nor am I that weak
Use to taking the extra serving
that settles as unnecessary excess
around a stretched waistband
of pompousity

Releasing it all in a colonic fast
that wipes the slate of my life
clean for a brand new day

Was it not I who agreed to love
by the measure returned
despite the unplanned acts
purged of our nature
that at times could cause
a cosmic meltdown
in a very ordinary circumstance?

but we were never ordinary
and there was never anything
we couldn't work out

Do you think I forgot
the unconditional way
you came to conquer my life
and reshape my future
holding my hand as
my very life became
the target of demise
and destruction?

I will always be grateful
emitting understanding
because understanding
was emitted to me

More than faintly I can still see
those eyes that mixed with my own
into beautiful colors of gold and green
haze
like the first sun of morning
setting footprints in a row
that we surrender to easily
letting summer's breeze
float us from one point
to the next

I also know that you being not use
to unconditional things
might have a difficult time
conceiving my mindset

So rest assured in knowing
that if I ever said I loved you
than I still do

I am still LOVE
I always will be
LOVE