Best Poems Written by Robyn Piper

A Tear For You

As I glance out the tinted window of the hearse, a cool drop of sweat beats 
downward towards my lower back, sending shivers from my neck to the very 
bottom of my spine.
I clench my fists as I try to hold back tears; doing everything I can to imagine 
myself in a place far from here. I wish that this was nothing more than a dream 
gone wrong. 
Silently for the first time since his death I gasped for a quick breath of air, letting 
every emotion that I’d ever felt run through my body.
 Unexpectedly a tear trickles down my face in what seemed like a rhythmic 
pattern. 
The once meaningless tears I’d grown use to turned into massive sobs, heavy 
and heartfelt leaving me with an emptiness unknown to any kind I’d ever felt 
before.

Copyright © Robyn Piper | Year Posted 2007