Tides

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Tonight

I drown on the tears

no one will see.

 

Drops fall from my eyes

like blood

and rest on a white pillowcase

that is marred 

with the evidence of

my sorrows.

 

For not all parting

is sweet 

sorrow, 

but rather 

a bitter sorrow

full of pain

that flows but never

ebbs.

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Sometimes it is hard to find

Sometimes it is hard to find comfort in loneliness. Thank you for your comment!

 

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Crying alone...not always

Crying alone...not always bad, but it sounds like this person is not at all comfortable with crying alone. Sad poem....very sad.


...and he asked her, "do you write poetry? Because I feel as if I am the ink that flows from your quill."

"No", she replied, "but I have experienced it. "