RiverStone Ripples

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tears



dearOne...

          tears...

                   warmcurled beneath the covers of ourselves
                   but sometimes knottedup inside
                   & the inside flows outside
                                              soulheart
                                              alone in the silence

youthots
        pulsing the 2 a.m. 3 a.m. 4 a.m. sleeplessness
                                               whisper
                                               of the innerVoice

pain...

       transition?
       birthpangs of What?
       all that hasn't been letgo?

       tears are the letgo
                     warmflow
                         into selfarms
                            wetsmeared
                               with the salt wounds
                                         deephidden
                                         beneath repression's control

        tears...
                        
                unchaining the heartlocks
                unblocking
                           the waterflow

sometimes years-of-tears letgo
                           into soultides/heartquake
                           shakeawake from sleep

                           into outselves/out of ourselves
                                     mistblur
                           of all the troubled why's
                           to which even the wise have no keys...

        except tears...
                       in wetsoft release
                       flowing beyond all knowing

                          as the arms of Silence enfold
                          heartsbeating without armor

               tears...

                       crysalis of liquid yes-blessing
                       blear-smearing pure cleansing        
                       herenow clear of fears

                               emptied to be filled
                               with the divine as near
                               as your heart
                                            still singing

                thru a mist of tears...
                
                                                    ~~norman e. masters


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