Suggestive?

Shades of Mercerism
Each and every night
grace a mon chicano
what i wouldn't do/give
for a penfield box or
even just two handles
to hold myself steady.

i want a geologist to tell me.
i want him to tell me if there's an intermediate step between coal and diamond.
Because i happen to know that the word "Diamond"
comes from the Latin for "Inconquerable,"
and at the very innermost, that's what i want.
A core that is made by pressure and hardship, but utterly invincible.