The Weight of Tears
the weight of tears
for ten thousand years
more
the earth has wept
through women’s eyes
salted seas run with the moon
in tidal floods and pools
left high upon the shore
deserted
the tears of oceans captured
in scarred rock bowels
a woman washed in blue
sits beside a stranded pool
weeps liquid stars
into a crystal phial
she saves the weight of sorrow
in a silver capped vial
deep the rivers run
in shadowed places
they carve arteries and veins
carry secrets drop by drop
forming stalactites and stalagmites
of misery or joy
tears drown
weigh heavy on the chest
shatter mountains
carve and coruscate the soul.
Copyright © Patricia Cresswell | Year Posted 2017
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