with Chord CCU1
Where do the tears go when they are shed © By Michael Casey Where do the tears go when they are shed While I lie here crying on my bed Do the tears drip drip away and seep though The floorboards and head for the sea. Do my tears join an ocean that rises and falls Do the tears yell and scream but only sea farers Hear them, do whales moan as they crash through them Only whales know of my distress as my tears groan In deep deep oceans in the unknown dark deep seas. Do my tears head north to the North Pole and Santa Does Santa Ho Ho Ho so much because he is trying to drown out The cries and sobs and tears held back for so many years. Do tears form ice shelves and become icebergs, silent and majestic Like giant cathedrals of ice. Is this the way to silent the voice of tears. Frozen in Time for 100s of years, the fears of today and yesterday are merged As one, gagged for eternity in an ice cathedral. Will everything be forgot, deep freezed, quick frozen like garden peas. Do my tears evaporate and head for the sky, joining the clouds as they pass by. Are my tears blown this way and that, are they taken far away over the ocean. As planes pass through the clouds that are my tears, can the passengers hear Can the passengers hear my tears, all my hopes and fears, or are my tears Drowned out by the inflight movie, 007 killing my prayers to heaven. Do my tears wash away my pain, my guilt, are they like mothers’ milk? For tears touch us all, they are like a morning mist that shrouds us. For tears are the dark dark night of the soul, a cold coat that covers us. In the morning we remember we fell asleep crying, but what of now? Now we’ve looked at our dead mum’s photo and think of what she would have said. We smile as we remember, her fight, her love, her spirit, her smile. But never tears, she shed no tears for us, she shed no tears for us. Tears will come, tears will come again, but they are just water, we are stronger Than mere water, we have a boat and that boat is Love.
**** I had this poem in my head so tonight I tried to a nail it down
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