A Teardrops Travels

Sorrow so deep it draws out the soul

Concentrated pain in the of a teardrop

Slowly meandering across my eye

Shivering down my sobbing face

How I wish I could find the strength to wipe it away

But I watch as it drops to the sodden floor

Soaked up in the dust and dirt and grime

That lone teardrop shattered and scattered amongst the debris

Through days it sits there

Each passing moment pulling it away

Is each portion of this package of grief now tied together for its life

Is each molecule scarred for life with the images ripped from my mind

What marvelous path shall it travel in time

Shall it drift slowly into the sky

And see all the world with a birds eye

Many mysterious places I shall never see

Freer than I shall ever be

Mixed within a mass of millions of similar things

Yet only this one born of degradation

Shall it be shunned aside and left alone

Shall it be incorporated into a vast ocean

And shall it someday be part of a storm

Shall it fall with more vengeance then all others

Shall it someday land upon a much older and worn me

Will it feel it is home

Will it know me

Will it sense that the pain from whence it was spawned still resides

Will I have time to hear its stories before again it departs

Shall I thirst upon it and now make it part of my heart

Will this journey never end

How one sad teardrop becomes my friend

Dave .. 8-7-2002