i follow you
in a Lake of Tears

hoping along the way
that I can replace your
frown with my fragile smile

and erase all your demons
causing such fears

Would you turn around?
Will you stay awhile?

What of this moment possessed
of such hidden 
	and poignant sorrow?

	so unlike a song
	whose words are left to forgotten hums
	in that distance of stillness that breaks
		even the curtain of sound
		that knows no safe tomorrow

Running so deep
your weeping
like an arrow of blood
bleeds the pain

as though from some other existence
does your
	grief overlap to saturate this Life
		
		again and again

I listen to your
echoes as they
	stream down
the walls of Eternity

forever to cry
forever to feel wounded
	in starved embrace

forever to wonder
what it was all meant to be

a shadow hidden
without a face

those smiles in Heaven
still dip their sympathy in lofty
tears
	left from long ago

this lake that knew them once . . .
those tears left frozen in time like
		forgotten Snow
 
this lake that drowned in its own
Lake of Tears at last

having drank the sadness
from all the Ages past . . .

				/susan