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Drying Your Tears

( DRYING YOUR TEARS ) Tear drops fall from your blue eyes and my heart stops a beat at their sight. I pull you close to me, try to take the pain from you, make it my own. My cheek lays against yours and your tears burn my face as I whisper, "Darling, it will be all right." My tears blend with your own, your pain now mine, and our tears become one as they fall in rivers on the sheets. I dry your tears with kisses, soft upon your face, shelter you from pain in the recesses of my love. Our bed becomes a chalice and we drink in each others sorrow, finding salvation in each other's arms; pain washed away giving rise to passion 'till we forget there ever were tears. (c) Jasmine Paul 11-15-2014

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Ingvar Thorisdottir

Date: 11/15/2014 4:56:00 PM

When I read this it has tremendous rhythm and meter and it is quite tender and tragic all at once.

Cona Adams

Date: 11/15/2014 8:03:00 AM

Jasmine, this form is free verse. There is no rule which says that free verse cannot rhyme. Free verse is simply that, free. You tell your story, make your point, without worrying about a particular form. You can use simile, metaphor, line breaks, and all the other poetic devices without worrying about fitting your poem into a prescribed pattern.