Walking through the soul of humanity
I weep tears
“the tears of the world are a constant quantity”
and so that endless river flows
never to kiss a forgiving sea
The arrows of time
sometimes turn back
and tear through the flesh of your past
and you are left there bleeding
alone
I split open this
what floods in
is this world
how human twists beauty into the shapes
distorted and damaged
Failing is the I
love and kisses and embraces
never even find
the deepest part of the cuts
Screaming at the worthless I
incapable of sewing back together
the legs and arms and hearts
and dreams and lips and hopes and lives
Walking through the soul of humanity
I weep tears
“the tears of the world are of constant quantity”
and so that endless river flows
never to kiss a healing sea
The arrows of time
sometimes turn back
and tear through the flesh of the past
and they are left there bleeding
alone
For all the broken ones I have loved.
"the tears of the world are a constant quantity" from Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot"