How simple is a tear to me
A drop of water, nothing more
A thing without meaning in a great wide ocean
One would tear and gasp and shriek and sink
Never knowing if that one special fragment
was a part of what was drowning you
But it is special, when alone, sliding down my face
That one microcosmic part of heaven
is more than all the water on the earth
It cried out my sadness, my loneliness
It is me as I drown in that ocean
Alone and sinking, never to rise
And then it drips to the floor
and no one will ever know
the pain that was wrapped
all alone
inside that little tear
