This Poem was Submitted By: DerrickT Heath Tyson On Date: 2003-05-16 17:51:58 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Mourning

Your eyes that once stood still staring into mine like stars  staring down upon the world Are now lost under your lids. Together in a twilight of brief time, and in those hours of gentleness the constant flutters like butterfly wings danced through my wandering heart. When the youthful happy child, Love, sings a song, the world: animals, creatures of the sea, hands from clocks, winds from desert to desert, flowing rivers from the Mississippi to the Nile All gather in silence to listen to the voice of my soul that sings our your name. But how far are the stars? They seem as far as our first kiss. And if a waterfall could hear the previous fallen tears that I've wept, the tears that still fall in puddles of memory through the sunlit days and the silvery moon nights of your image that I forever hold, then envy would set itself dry So that my tears could flow through it replenishing the desiccated fountain. Do your mourn as I still do? Each day I perform a tragic play, in the likes where King Lear weaps, as does Macbeth, Othello, and Hamlet. For the loss that I have taken without your presence is unseen through the skin. 

Copyright © May 2003 DerrickT Heath Tyson


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