My heart is crying, overwhelmed with life
Watching the suffering of many, the constant strife
Between others–mothers, and children, husbands and wives
Nation against nation, no one carrying about the lives
Of people who feel–misery and pain,
Lost, with no more to lose and nothing else to gain,
The salt seeps into each muscle and tendon,
Navigating its way through each ventricle and back,
Saturating all the tissue which holds the emotions
In check, no longer able to reasonably resist
Giving in to those thoughts and feelings that created
The mess of lives and nations galore,
My heart is crying, deeply saddened and sodden
By all the salt–meant to preserve, but now burns
As I watch how one thing after the other turns,
Into chaos and confusion!
My heart is crying!
maryhallrayford 