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Poetchick
Junior Member

since 2003-03-13

Posts 10
Norfolk, UK

0 posted 2003-03-15 04:25 PM

Never has such a tear been shed before,
Not like the one that I witnessed then.
A study in despair was my face as the
Unlikely tumbled from the now unknown.
I saw it, oh yes, I saw it fall.
It began in a redding eye,
An eye that is but one of a pair I had come to know
So very well -
The playground of my affections, the spa
For my pain.
That night however, the redness betrayed an unfamiliarity
That cut deep for many years to come.
And from that red (a sign of danger as ever, fickle colour!)
Came the beginnings of a glisten.
How those eyes had changed, from the glint of adoration
To the glistening of a tear, all in a heartbeat,
At least thats how it seemed to me.
And so cometh the tear,
That I speak of now.
It rolled like thunder in vision,
And so slow
Across the landscape of adored Dulcinea.
From the corner of the eye,
Down across a cheek that had days before
Stood flushed at my wink and glad to feel my lips upon it.
Passing ever in slowest time to the corner of
A perfect mouth,
That had known such passion from mine,
And had tasted only my affection
For months untold.
No movement from mouth to stay its fall,
No hint from those still perfect lips that there would
Be a dam for this damnation tonight.
Across and down and hanging
On a chin I loved on a face I adored,
And all around was silence.
And as the tears of mine began their furious race,
To flood down and join one last time with you,
I watched it hanging,
Your single tear
And my whole being.
How long I cannot say,
But gravity will not be ignored,
And so the teardrop fell
And shattered on the floor.
That it was shed for us is all that remains,
But that perhaps is enough.
That and these words, which will remind me ever
That even in the ending
You were the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

1 posted 2003-03-15 11:56 PM

Incredibly sad, but so well written. Nice imagery, especially saw this vividly:

I watched it hanging,
Your single tear
And my whole being.
How long I cannot say,
But gravity will not be ignored,
And so the teardrop fell
And shattered on the floor.
That it was shed for us is all that remains,
But that perhaps is enough.
***
And the last line...hopefully, that can carry you forward. Peace to you!

JP
Senior Member

since 1999-05-25

Posts 1343
Loomis, CA

2 posted 2003-05-17 12:09 PM

Touchingly sad, Well done.

Yesterday is ash, tomorrow is smoke; only today does the fire burn.
Nil Desperandum, Fata viem invenient

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