Silent Tears

 

After a thunderstorm 

rain leaves behind only 

the steady beat of 

drip, drip from the eaves

When a heart breaks

sadness slips over eyelids

in silence.

“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery, writer

(1900 - 1944)

24 Hours

You don’t need to run away

You don’t need to cry

Clouds will do that for you

 Their tears trickle down in 

a fine mist or

       full fat drops

Wind blows them away

  Pushes them onto the next 

prairie or woodland

       mountains or out to sea

the sun is allowed to shine

in skies clear and blue

or velvet black with

        star shine and crescent moon

You don’t need to run away.

You don’t need to cry.

“My courage does not depend on the weather.”

~ Mary Anne Radmacher, author

In the Drift

Here I am 

on a blank page 

wondering 

which words go together 

too many words come at me 

all at once 

not blocked 

merely too many good ideas 

or were they really good?

or just a disparate word 

scribbled on the page with 

the oomph knocked out of it,

maybe even the why of it vanished.

“The clouds don’t overthink; they just drift.”

~ Avijeet Das, poet and writer