Did You See The Tears

DID YOU SEE THE TEARS I sat on the bus waiting to go, Turning my head from the window Not wanting to look out at your upturned face, Hiding the tears as they poured out Like a river, streaming down my face. My heart ached burning my chest, Raw unbidden emotion raged deep within my soul; Anger, sorrow, bitterness all mixed up like a full-bodied wine Fermenting and stewing, making me blind! A sudden jolting of the bus stirred me back into the now, To this time and place and I snapped my head around, Now trying to embrace, to seek, to emblazon for one last time In my memory, my heart, my soul...the love I was leaving behind. Too late; too late I came back into time, And words screamed loudly within, yet not one escaped my parched lips, Not a word came to life - and I like my lifeless words, died a bit that Lost moment in time; I could have but didn't and lost my last chance - to Love.

Did you see the tears my love that I silently cried into space; Did you see the tears of separation & grief streaming down my face... Will I ever return to see you and know your love, Or have these tears symbolically all memories of you erased? © Shammah 11-2006