Remembering

REMEMBERING ?? 9/8/20. (Witten for Michele Embry Madison In memory of our dearestfriend Charlie Cooper) There are tears Sitting at the outside Corners of our eyes, grown cool now. They do not fall. They do not dry. There are tears with histories Living on in hearts, Aside thoughts Making poems, trying To use ink to quell pain. There are tears In hidden vaults, lost in minds. They do not escape, do not leave, Nor evaporate. The verses of tears Are lines like our lines, forever, Waiting to be written, Word by word From the beginning, but The tears, still, do not dry. *****. *****. *****. ***** By Sally Young Eslinger(C) 2020 Thanks be to God et Charlie aussi