Storm's Tears

• Posted by Paws October 5, 2016 - Filed in TSC: Poems - 1,461 views

  Bitter tears falling disguised in the rain

  Words hoarsely rolling off a diminished tongue

  Apathetic ears hark to words annually sung

  Listener and speaker both broken by pain.

   

  Stillness, brittle and bleak, shroud violence like a pall

  The unspoken rings true in fractured minds, futility and regret

  Dry eyes holding back a flood think back to that sun set

  Another year begins at dawn, time to get back up from the fall.

   

  It was a beautiful morning, birds singing, the sky blue but pale

  The mundane held significance to eyes wide with shock

  Brains reeling and stunned as the survivors tried to take stock

  Numbness drapes life like a veil.

   

  "Time heals all" - wise words dropped like blood

  The day dawns like the one before yet nothing's the same

  Exhausted thoughts cast about for something to blame

  Weeks hence they would tread carefully with the casket, avoiding the mud.

   

  Days blend and flow together, the nights seem as one

  Gulfs open and chasms yawn in the pyche's of the living

  Ghosts pour forth hell bent on reminding

  Long ages pass without the light of the sun.