Fuel

[jurisprudent]

Human is a soft machine,
Mechanics working bad,
Construction fragile and weak,
Components in sluggish movement
Catalysed by vigour-lacking blood.
Human fuel is love
As a tender touch, a word,
A scent of flowers in the Sunday morning
Of weddings and sermons.
To keep the engine going,
To keep it running and dynamic,
Please look for a love station
To fill your tank and light the car,
Yes, you will have to.
Love stations have no demarcations on maps,
No roads to find them standing by,
You will need an emotional detector to find them –
A hand clocking at the right direction,
By asking inner questions –
Painful, but so important.
Love stations offer fuels of no price,
Just pour one into your tank and let go,
Your pocket, your purse will never be afflicted.
The cost to count for love, though,
Will not be a quarter of silver or gold,
or a bank account, or a roll of banknotes –
Just recall the old gentleman Shylock of Venice,
And the price of his bond,
This is the price charged by love stations,
A pound of flesh, your own flesh,
Why not – a pound of your soul,
Weighed up by the standards of divine grace.

[paperleaves]

This was a really touching poem. Sometimes I feel that people all too often forget the beauty of love and search for other distractions to replace that. It's rather sad that people don't understand that "human fuel is love" :(

[jurisprudent]

Thank you for your nice words. I would just add that I use "love" in a more general sense, not only as a love consumed by sex, but love as friendship, compassion, love between relatives, love as a bond of feeling between humans. But the piece ends quite gloomily, to be honest, a bit turning upside down the idea from the beginning.

[Delta40]

This is a fabulous poem. The way you describe humans in a machine like context then introduce love and spirituality as the fuel of our survival is powerful indeed. A very unique piece in my view.

Consider editing the line: To make it running and dynamic to: To keep it running and dynamic but it is only a suggestion of course in an otherwise well crafted poem.

[jurisprudent]

Thank you very much for your suggestion, it is reasonable and I used it.

[Twota]

I really like that alot ;D specially the 1st five lines :D

[jurisprudent]

Thanks to you, too.