J.B. LeBuert - Tears

A tear, two tears, a timeless flood <br />A drip, two drips, a bucket of blood <br />Pain excruciating and everlasting <br />Void of joy and full of crud <br /> <br />A tear, two tears, more than you can count <br />A drip, a drop, a force you can’t mount <br />Brain numbing and mind boggling <br />More than you’ll ever recount <br /> <br />A tear, two tears, a waterfall <br />A drip, a torrent, an intricate pall <br />An ecclesiastical pallium <br />Spread over the wall <br /> <br />A tear, two tears, an empty urn <br />No place to run, nowhere to turn <br />Breathless and vanquished all at once <br />Ashes to ashes, your body will burn <br /> <br />A tear, two tears, a full coffin <br />Mangled and wasted all too often <br />Prodigious happenings all around <br />Portentous moralizing so abound <br /> <br />A tear, two tears, your cup runeth over <br />A gregarious flock of beautiful plover <br />Juxtaposed photos for stark effect <br />Bountiful fields of burnt clover <br /> <br />Meaningful signs that here She comes <br />Eleven hands with thirteen thumbs <br />Blinding apocalyptic white flashes <br />Leaving finite miniscule breadcrumbs <br /> <br />A tear, two tears, that’s all that’s left <br />Nondescript culmination of the lonely bereft <br />Nothingness crawling up an erroneous pole <br />Blank memories erased from a mind half whole <br /> <br />Your tears are meaningless to the universe <br />They’ll be obdurately defined as a curse <br />Stop crying now you empiric dupe <br />Your tears are macabre and foretell much worse.<br /><br />J.B. LeBuert<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/tears-465/