A Kiss Unrelinquished
A glint of light
flashed through her eye
flecks of dust too
floated there.
Words echoed in the air
and I could hear
her welling tear
howl like a sorrowful wind
in eyes which grew
narrow
from the question
which hung in
the thick gap
between question posited
and response given.
I was
a dust mote;
reeling
tumbling
flaming
speck
fl eeing
exposed to those eyes
now glistening
screeching
from where the soul cries.
Cornered there
in the oval edge
the exposed tear,
slid across
to the oval end,
the eye
narrowed it
to a slither-tear,
falling down
across the cheek bone
to the gray floor
in poor, dark light,
in a room carpeted
with unspoken words
and nuances.
A tear falls
in uncertain
circumstance;
mid-sentence,
amid vague meanings
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poem by Lonnie Hicks
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