Poetry

1. HARD TO CRACK
No matter how hard I banged the tortoise shell; it simply refrained to split,
No matter how vehemently I struck the human tooth; it just didn’t chap at its edge,
No matter from how high I threw the coconut down; it didn’t display even a single
scratch on its shell,
No matter how tenaciously I crushed the human skull; it simply didn’t show any
signs of snapping apart,
No matter how passionately I hammered the elephant tusk; it still remained as stoical
as white ice,
No matter how stubbornly I boxed the punching bag; it didn’t gasp the slightest; even
after infinite punches of mine,
No matter how ruthlessly I kicked the diamond ceiling; it still seemed to have
retained its perpetual shine,
No matter how many harpoons I shot at the shark; it still came back hostile and alive
from beneath the waters,
No matter how much pressure I exerted on the spring; it still rebounded back with
thunderbolt velocity,
No matter how viciously I thrashed then whip against the wall; it still didn’t seem to
have lost; even an iota of its sting,
No matter how many holes I drilled in the base of the iron ship; it simply
didn’t appear to sink,
No matter how hard I tried to twist the bars of the prison; they kept standing like a
fortress in front of my eyes,
No matter how resiliently I tried to control the storm waters from rising; they kept
swelling up; evolving into a flood like never before,
No matter how fervently I tried to chew sweets of steel; the entire armory of my
teeth broke like frigid matchsticks; but the biscuits retained their silvery polish,
No matter how badly I pierced the dinosaurs eye; it didn’t blink the slightest; shone
brilliantly under the sun,

2. No matter how wildly I squelched the walnut in my palms; it simply didn’t alter its
shape the slightest,
No matter how insanely I hammered the walls of my conscience; it simply
didn’t surrender its ideals,
No matter how pertinently I tried to control my dreams; they kept growing
relentlessly; fantasizing about the entire universe every second,
And No matter how doggedly I tried to break my heart; it throbbed even more
violently for the person it loved; cried incessantly for the girl it wanted to imprison in
the vice like swirl of its romance; forever & ever & ever .