Tears A tear, two tears, a timeless flood A drip, two drips, a bucket of blood Pain excruciating and everlasting Void of joy and full of crud A tear, two tears, more than you can count A drip, a drop, a force you can’t mount Brain numbing and mind boggling More than you’ll ever recount A tear, two tears, a waterfall A drip, a torrent, an intricate pall An ecclesiastical pallium Spread over the wall A tear, two tears, an empty urn No place to run, nowhere to turn Breathless and vanquished all at once Ashes to ashes, your body will burn A tear, two tears, a full coffin Mangled and wasted all too often Prodigious happenings all around Portentous moralizing so abound A tear, two tears, your cup runeth over A gregarious flock of beautiful plover Juxtaposed photos for stark effect Bountiful fields of burnt clover Meaningful signs that here She comes Eleven hands with thirteen thumbs Blinding apocalyptic white flashes Leaving finite miniscule breadcrumbs A tear, two tears, that’s all that’s left Nondescript culmination of the lonely bereft Nothingness crawling up an erroneous pole Blank memories erased from a mind half whole Your tears are meaningless to the universe They’ll be obdurately defined as a curse Stop crying now you empiric dupe Your tears are macabre and foretell much worse LeBuert 2012 ![]() |