Solid Tear
By Convolution
Whenever you opened those eyes, a tear manifested itself on your cheek. We thought it was going to stay there forever, but then it fell. We all watched in amazement until it exploded on the concrete. A thousand smaller bits of liquid sadness flew in a thousand different directions. Each of them had a density appropriate to whose shoes they landed on, and each one was colored to make it look as if it had a reason to exist all to itself. When it came down to the second volley’s landing, logic would have suggested a thousand drops still tinier would have flown forth from each of the thousand tiny drops, and so it would’ve continued forever. But it was cold. So cold, in fact, that one thousand thousandths of a permanent tear froze solid in the air, and when they touched the earth they instantly evaporated. Our gaze lingered in the arena of that silent drama for several seconds, and then we looked back up. During our eyes’ journey back to yours, our minds concocted every soothing phrase existing, and we prepared to recite them all to you. However, when our eyes reached yours, we saw that another tear had already replaced that one, and we were all silent. Written January 5th, 2002 © on Jan 05 2002 01:51 PM PST 0 • 1
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"Whenever you opened those eyes, a tear manifested itself on your cheek. We thought it was going to stay there forever, but then it fell. We all watched in amazement until it exploded on the concrete. A thousand smaller bits of liquid sadness flew in a thousand different directions. Each of them had a density appropriate to whose shoes they landed on, and each one was colored to make it look as if it had a reason to exist all to itself. When it came down to the second volley’s landing, logic would have suggested a thousand drops still tinier would have flown forth from each of the thousand tiny drops, and so it would’ve continued forever. But it was cold. So cold, in fact, that one thousand thousandths of a permanent tear froze solid in the air, and when they touched the earth they instantly evaporated. Our gaze lingered in the arena of that silent drama for several seconds, and then we looked back up. During our eyes’ journey back to yours, our minds concocted every soothing phrase existing, and we prepared to recite them all to you. However, when our eyes reached yours, we saw that another tear had already replaced that one, and we were all silent...."