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Why the Tears?
Why the tears
I ask myself?
Why the heart
That breaks
In tiny pieces,
No surgeon
Can ever fix,
With remnants
That is left.
Tears flow like
Torrents down
My face,
Staining everything
It touches.
I am powerless!
To stop.
A juggernaut,
Of emotions
Collide with fragility
Stained and blurry eyes.
Drew Balfour © 2019
I ask myself?
Why the heart
That breaks
In tiny pieces,
No surgeon
Can ever fix,
With remnants
That is left.
Tears flow like
Torrents down
My face,
Staining everything
It touches.
I am powerless!
To stop.
A juggernaut,
Of emotions
Collide with fragility
Stained and blurry eyes.
Drew Balfour © 2019
Published 20th Feb 2020
Author's Note
A moment in time when I saw tree ripped up from it's roots. The devastation gripped me
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20th Feb 2020 10:52pm
Your poem reminded me of Stanley Kunitz's poem "The War against the Trees" which can be found on-line here:
https://mondaypoems.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-war-against-trees.html
https://mondaypoems.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-war-against-trees.html
21st Feb 2020 00:11am
Thank you Josh for your kind comments, what can I say! I am a self confessed tree hugger.
Anonymous
25th Feb 2020 4:07pm
Those last four lines we're my favorite part of this great write. Wonderfully descriptive
