Plastered on the once blue skies,
These drab clouds are rolling by,
I've never seen a sadder day,
Now I'm all alone.

Roses wilting, once so red,
A path of valor, soldiers bled,
Fades into distant memory,
Now I'm all alone.

Long forgotten and packed away,
Pictures of loved ones lost in the fray,
The tears that fall, let them be,

“Silent Tears Only” read the sign beyond the door and all the souls that traveled through would sign the dotted line (which was, indeed, for them, the unborn souls) before climbing down to earth on Jacob’s Ladder with the Angels.

And the Voice within said, “Smile and say that
everything’s O.K. Don’t cry. Don’t let it show that you’re afraid.”

My heart is breaking
aching
watching
tears shedding
waters shattering
rough
through storms
deep and cold
churning
the soul.

Crowds wounding,
because they're
hurting
though hiding

Smiles cracked
like broken glass
shatter and fall
into nothing.

The sun is running
through the breeze
burning
shaking trees
trembling knees.

Eyes screaming
of pain and grief

O solitude of emptiness
of grief
a hole through your heart
that love makes
when it is betrayed by the loss of Eden
the sudden absence of what should be
as familiar as life
and the glare against your eyes
against your heart
of what should not
and what is making you
cracking
breaking you

o solitude of emptiness
of loss
an ache made from the wound
that catches you off-guard