Refuge Sought

Tears. There are no tears. To cool flushed cheeks. Sate flaming eyes boiling soft mist vapoured life. Saline tears salted bitter life-giving sea. Tears. Victim can never cry to release choked emotion. Shall never fall as spring rain. Tainted only tears record shall show. Are tears of dark black blood. Tears. That will only flow from shattered mirror’s edge. Across wrists laid bare to touch slashed cross pulsating vein’s life. To darken tiled bathroom floor. Agony’s scream no longer heard walls mute stand unmoved. Time drips seeps sluggish torpid deadening sound within deaf ears. Agony’s scream heavenward heard? Copyright © Terence George Craddock http: //www.poemhunter.com/terence-george-craddock/