TEARS OF MARBLE

( for Ita, Danny, Junie and Brian )

the angel rests her head
against mine

uses my tears
to cry

for marble is unable
to bear such human pain

the sorrow within..welling
overwhelming the eyes

here lies buried all
I hold most dear

I weep for myself
that I

am left behind
this sadness

this greif
bereft of mind

and only now
can the angel cry

great big fat tears
of rain

sploshing upon my eyes
shut tight

yet still seeing
her soft shy carved smile

marble and human both
cry in vain

the heavens open
I drenched to the skin

Heaven refusing
to let me in