Black Tears
As though her eyes were blind - and her lips numb - she - I - stumbled through the maze that is Our World. Our lady - of the shadows - Auladia Lradaela - dark prophetess - they called her - and of the Apocalypse - end of days - a day of ends - Black Tears - that you may know them when your own eyes shriek - giving them to the world - and your heart is breaking - but they say you are tired - they say it is loneliness - but aù a blacker deeper loneliness - burning more - than you may ever know - with numb lips - numb brain - numb soul - she weeps for her innocence - whether innocence wronged - somehow betrayed - and too soon lost - for the crimes committed in innocence - for obedience is the worst sin of all - a crime against the - suffocated - soul - she weeps for her ignorance - that she - that I - am - is - still innocent - that she has never felt sensation - raw - she has never seen the sea - Is this her crime - a penance - to wander - a pittance - merely eternal life - and the merest mortal possesses that - though he will not admit it - will not claim the wonder in his own fingertips - this inheritance his surest reward - but I lapse - I tell a story - which is wrong - for the words are true - and drift in shadows - with her tears - round - her - feet - and - mine - Now she sloshes through water - the shadows deep with misery - and she could drown - the perfect suicide - is to die a natural death - defeat them all - with their own trick