<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448760" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Dry Tear Down</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">They found her dried tears<br>at the beach<br>beneath the sand; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">in a phone booth<br>where calls came from; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">inside Cruelty's Eye; <br>at the edges of Sharp Words, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">in eddies whirling in Mean-Spirited Space; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">in the crevices of a Frowning Brow; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">in the Back Hand and redden cheeks; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">in the tracks of her Child-Hood memories; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">on carpeted floors <br>where she had lain, <br>face down, soul squashed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They found her tears<br>had tears at the end-<br>had become a deluge-<br>washed out to sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But they didn't find her.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She was gone; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">traces of her smile</div><div style="margin:10px 0">tho lingered on; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">her things of lace, her sad face<br>in the photographs, <br>her mild regards<br>her notes<br>signed Millicent; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the dark doodles on her high school books.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He finally called</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and she rose <br>on Rainbowed Air</div><div style="margin:10px 0">tear by tear<br>fluttering high-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">one by one<br>cleaned and cleansed</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and placed <br>into a new-born's</div><div style="margin:10px 0">baby eyes<br>and some <br>were carefully placed<br>inside child smiles<br>where joy reins.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lonnie+Hicks">Lonnie Hicks</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448760" data-title="The Dry Tear Down de Lonnie Hicks" data-description="They found her dried tears at the beach beneath the sand; in a phone booth where calls came from; inside Cruelty's Eye; at the edges of Sharp Words, in eddies whirling in Mean-Spirited Space; in the crevices of a Frowning Brow; in the B..."></div> </div> </div>

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