A Single Tear
26 January, 2004
Author: Teresa Ortberg
A single tear, salty and warm.
Stings as it rolls over the skin
like acid rain on the soft petal of the rose.
It scrapes the soul, leaving raw and bleeding
seeping as the nectar of the blood orange.
The tear born of angst yet appetent
for the one who choked it into life.
I beg for more to come and seal my martyrdom.
Tear that steals from the depths of loneliness
and turns it into despair and desperation.
Savage tear that robs the deep, sweet rescue of sleep.
Solitary tear, bitter like the coffee bean, yet
sweet as the berry.
A single tear that fills an ocean, arrainging its fury,
unbeknownst to the one who will not fall.
A single tear, salty and warm.
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| Janeen (67.53.155.242) -- Thursday, May 24 2007, 08:51 pm How many tears did we share? I could not have born them all if not for you. Thank you Teresa. |
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