~Like A Tear~

09/29/2011

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~Like A Tear~

~face dark as silt~
  ~high water crashing~
  ~cascading down~
  ~yellow/white~
  ~red vein showing~
  ~tide rolls in smooth~
  ~liquid saline blanket~
  ~lids blink~
  ~reveal eyes of mud~
  ~a white worm crawls through~
  ~falls across the cheek~
  ~like a tear~

~thick lips grimace~
  ~create a parody of a grin~
  ~teeth whiter than white~
  ~ivory columns~
  ~part and a pink snake leaps out~
  ~seizes the falling morsel~
  ~and bears it home~
  ~like a tear~
  ~like a hostage~
  ~like a promise~
  ~protesting genesis~

~the pearl white gates fall~
  ~as the tide flows back~
  ~eyes slam shut~
  ~then open~
  ~yellow/white~
  ~vein broken~
  ~red blood drips~
  ~down an ebony cheek of sand~
  ~like a tear~
  ~like a river become man~

~lightning arcs shiver~
  ~destroy the fabric of the sky~

~an insignificant mound of sand~
  ~rises up~
  ~shouts curses unheeded~
  ~to the heavens~
  ~fear is born in the mud of its eyes~
  ~thunder breaks~
  ~the man thing falls down~
  ~it has come to pray~
  ~to be carried away~
  ~like a tear~
  ~like a promise of nations~

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  ~Like A Tear was first published by Poetically Speaking~
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