MISSISSIPPI RIVER TEARS

MISSISSIPPI RIVER TEARS

Did you hear my cry?
Did its sound reach heaven?
I am a man
She is a woman
The one who draws me
Close into the moment
She feels my pain
She sees my tears
There is no reproach
I have lost my mother
We have lost our son
I have lost my job
I am losing myself
Still she stays
There is no reproach
She willingly holds my tears
They overflow and wet her neck
Quietly and quickly they dry
Heaven can you hear my tears?
Can you see and feel their pain?
She does, and adds her grief to mine.




Earthene Fleming
May 18, 2011


Author’s Comment
This poem is taken from suffering of the people who endured the flooding of the Mighty Mississippi River in the spring of 2011.

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