Tears In The Rain #WEP #WEPFF #Poetry

My entry for the WEP (Write…Edit…Publish) April Challenge:

Instead of a short story, I’m posting a poem.

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TEARS IN THE RAIN

Somewhere

a child is crying

innocence lost

Somewhere

a woman is lamenting

her mate, fighting

Wars

kill, murder

lives, loved ones

torn apart

*

Tears in the rain

Tears in the rain

All they have left

Are tears in the rain

*

Somewhere

a mother is weeping

her child, dying

Somewhere

a teen’s call for help

has gone unanswered

Disease

of body, mind

lives, loved ones

torn apart

*

Tears in the rain

Tears in the rain

All they have left

Are tears in the rain

*

Somewhere

a town is carried away

by water, by wind

Somewhere

the land, a mountain is burning

no relief in sight

Nature

friend or foe

lives, loved ones

torn apart

*

Tears in the rain

Tears in the rain

All they have left

Are tears in the rain

*

When will the clouds break?

When will this deluge end?

*

As flowers bloom

after a season of cold death

life, too, begins anew

nourished by

tears in the rain

transforming, replenishing

the damaged, the ruined

*

Resiliency of the human spirit

enduring

thru the darkest of storms

*

Tears in the rain

Tears in the rain

Let them fall

These tears in the rain

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Word Count 200: NCCO

Tag: Life is like tears in the rain