Seconds away from crying
This Hoover Dam of an eyelid is doing a good job
But it’s seconds away from breaking
All these tears dammed up inside could make Lake Lachrymose,
Leeches, Aunt Josephine and all
That was until she took the fall...
Tears on a cliff
Stacked up on a penny
About to spill over the thin edge
My hot tears
Have the potential
To set this place on fire
I know that
If I were to let them tumble down
They would burn my flesh with streams of lava
Droplets from the sun
Rain from Venus
This salt water is boiling within
Like tears from Rappaccini’s daughter
I am on my own
For I am poison
But I refuse to let them fall
Like pieces of hell
Raining from the ceiling