comprise

what building materials are these
snippets and scraps and smidgens
of songs and poems in verse or
tunes played in backroom memory
a hum of what may be a truth
or may be a figment or false
twisted by hope and laughter
and time and tears into a shining
diamond of a heart in a coal chest
comprised of all my worst and best
this is my yesterday and today
and part of my tomorrows
these my joys and sorrows