Deed Tears


And the deed
Is undying,
The wound is
Not a healing process.

And then
Small axes
Could not cut down
Big, big trees

An image,
A human face, a man;
An eye with tears
Flowing from it
Becoming his hair.

It is an
Experience that is
Its only chance.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2017

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