Shadow of Tears

Have you ever found yourself  quivering
outside of lines
stained
by what you thought was a love story?
Wondering
if you will be swallowed whole
by the window you sit and stare out,
in love's well meaning glory.

Beneath passion  blowing through the door
visiting your mind
like those little things
filled with a warmth
you have wanted
for so long.
Often, you find life
is at its happiest inside your dreams,
where nothing's wrong.

Sometimes in the middle of the night  
you want to be
a never-ending flow of love
smiling at the hands
on the Clock of Emptiness,
stuck in place.  
However, time melts into years
until starlight becomes well versed
at hiding the shadow of tears
on your face.

Author's Note

Photography by Rosie Hardy

Reviews

[Pax]

To many to beautiful imagery to quote… a stunning poem!!
A sad loneliness for someone is waiting and dreaming of pure true love…
Yes! Dreams is always a joy.. they never disappoints us…
and it always brings strength within us to hope
that everything will come to its place in a balance..
Stunning poem my friend…

[MOON]

Wow, you just have such a gift of making the poignancy of life, love and shattered dreams sing. Lovely as usual Neva .

[rivers]

Neva. you just have the gift of creative expression...Your writing stirs our emotions and the reader willingly follows your poignant poetry to the very last beautiful and yet deeply emotional lines. Thank you so much for sharing such intimate glimpses of the heart and soul

[Coyote Poetry]

A beautiful and powerful poem. Gave me a idea for a poem. Sometime we wish and hope too much for a real love story. Real love come rarely in time for the most of us. Thank you for sharing the excellent poem.
Coyote

[Kenneth The Poet]

This is an autumn poem. Sun sets early and if one breaks down afterward, you can literally see the stars hiding your tears. I think you describe what I see on a daily basis right now.

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

We may only dream so long before reality has its say... but that should never stop us from trying... wonderfully beautiful poem.

[Tate Morgan]

we all dream of a life as we would cherish it to be,transpose over that the reality of the truths of life and we find we are never going to live in shangrilah but we can live a damn decent life

[jacob erin-cilberto]

i agree with Frank...the last stanza is a poem of its own...

and maybe the first two stanzas could be a poem of their own.

either way, nice and smooth and soothing...if only dreams could be reality.


jacob

[FJ Davis]

That final stanza--especially those last four lines--not only brings the presentation home, it well might have stood alone as an extremely stunning offering!
Your crown remains quite secure, Queen Neva; you continue to rule with relative ease.