Return My Tears

for : Choose a line 2 Sponsor : Joseph May prompt: “The darkened sky stole my tears” submission date : 27/5/25 Placed : 4th : multiple RETURN MY TEARS The darkened sky stole my tears soprano crystalline they quickly disappeared Lucy my name still neat to tweet, though inner ocean could no longer drip sighs sweet desert dry goals, set anew, a different stew He no longer beheld teary dampened hues charcoal cloud-lips licked tear salt refined eerie seraphim pointed saffron south where fears were consternatingly narrowed near Danube desires for red velvet attire or focussed cease fires mattered little life performances madly tearless brittle it happened during a talisman thunderstorm this certainly phantom-like for fairy form soul aches to touch streamlets down rosy cheeks so charming, petulant part of story lost, when eyes dam up but cannot willow weep, sleepless songs seep to soak satin midnight pillow a disappeared right in dim bower, choking hours ‘forget sad droplets !’ flowered cupids harkened, ‘Heart scrubbed clear from harlequin waters your taffeta tears glisten on thistle in Garden of Eden, closely listen !’ wolf pacified, ‘not to worry, you can voice a howl’ gobi bear beckoned, ‘come prowl with tawny owl we will hear symphonic larks in operas dark tea-rose tears are for unopened hearts stealing kisses or wishes with swishes eating sumptuous dishes’ sob I wanted to so bad, be singularly sad feel drips on hands and feet, wash out eyes lubricate lips with self’s own mineralised H2O enriched emotion to finely comb, then hit Home Dark sky ! Return my tears ! Hear Soul’s plea Tears, my liquidised diamonds, an oasis for me