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2/3/2019 6:32:42 PM

Jack Webster
Posts: 255

There are no riddles in tears.
Everything is put plain.
A drop
will do.
No need for a puddle waiting
for someone's feet like
someone else's shoes to fill.
No need for the ambilavence of an ocean,
graceless sharks gliding
through a Mardi Gras of coral,
or darknss
so deep it touches the end of the Earth,
where its skin cracks open with fire
and crabs as white as paper gather in the boiling vents
chosing hell over the crushing cold.
No
A drop
will do.
A tear
that pats the page on the head
for being a loyal friend.
A tear that evaporates
leaving nothing at all
but an offering to the Beastly Bard
who looks upon the world with hollow
eyes, geodes of tears.
edited by superlativedeleted on 2/3/2019

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