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WindWalker
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0 posted 2006-08-23 12:51 PM


It is a hard thing, is it not
to know anyone's tears in the rain?
Yet many tears fall thus
and only the tear-maker knows
how they were created
why they came to be
and where they went.

Tears flow with the rain
when the fabric tears;
when what should be
does not come to be
and what should not be
breaks down the door
to take away the child.

I have seen tears in the rain
for I have seen the sky
cry over the earth and the sea
many a time, too many a time;
when the sun could not shine
upon earth nor sea
for sorrow would not let it be.

And the child that was lost
I saw again past her wandering.
I saw her somewhere
as another face in the rain;
another tear-streaked face
staring at a dark-grey sky
and barely did I recognize it.

I knew she'd looked her last
upon the things once called good.
Through tear-filled eyes
she'd reached for the hand of faith
and grasped at the arm of hope --
but hand and arm dissolved --
how bitter are tears in the rain.

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Deep in the heart
1 posted 2006-08-23 12:53 PM


Well done

Fool, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart and write.

ThisDiamond
Member Rara Avis
since 2002-02-22
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2 posted 2006-08-24 06:24 PM


Powerfully written.
Many thoughts, magnified in the drops...
Holding the child.
TD

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