The Longing

About the Book

I wrote you, my family, and it comes to the end of my ramblings. Sure, I will continue to write. I thank you for taking your time; I hope it interested you. The Longing was just my journal. I didn’t know Satan put a hit on me and God get it on me to share with the world. My honor as a common man is to stay on track and write appropriately. I have been praised and offended others on the subject. The reason I’m shy about what I have shared is I was feeling like I sounded like a broken record, but my Indian name is Broken Pencil. I have, when I was younger, written inappropriately and hope and pray they stay lost and burned. I’m very ashamed of my potty mouth as I feel words on paper are greater than words spoken. I am shy as I look in the mirror with my poet’s honor. My dream as I look, to be a master not to be a deaf, blind and mute. We all are, as I am, in a prison needing to be a god of war to realize the longing of myself. Love is everywhere even on the shelf. I love you, and everyone loves everybody else.

About the Author

Benny Joe Diaz, a.k.a. Broken Pencil, is a human writer with compassion for the world. Born in 1963 in Texas and at the age of two moved to Missouri. Since the age of twelve he was living in Kansas. In his late teens, he started a partner roofing business and started learning all types of construction. Worked for a glass plant started in 1989 and had ten years’ service. Still doing construction, he learned to work with kids with special needs. In 1989, he started writing poetry and joined a poetry workshop in 2000. He appeared in Best Poems and Poets in 2005 and 2006. He was just writing in his journal and having a hard time coping with life and putting it all down, putting it in God’s hands, and not letting God do all the work for he was also a fighter. He says he is shy, but people see him as outgoing.