Tears on the Sand
Do you remember Rose?
Love asked me
I dropped to my knees
My tears rivalled the sea
My tears on the sand
The immeasurable sky
Heard my cry
The immeasurable land
Collected my tears on the sand
Do you remember Rose?
Love insisted
I didn’t answer
Instead, pain did it for me
Yes, pain said, he remembers her
He does
I sighed
Up there in the immensity
High in its solitude
A full moon rose and the sea rose
And erased Rose
Her name written on the sand
I wrote it, her name
I wrote Rose’s name on the sand
To do it, I used a naked branch
A naked branch where a nest once perched
I used it to write her name on the sand
How long, oh, how long was it
How long was it that I wrote it
Rose’s name on the sand?
How long, oh, how long was it
That the tide over her name plied?
Even today, love asks
Do you remember her?
There is no malice in this question
I know
I feel there is no malice in this question
I wanted to see her name Rose
Written on the sand
I wanted to see Rose, but the sea rose
Ah, the moon rose and her name Rose
Was never there when the sea rose
My tears rival the sea
My tears on the sand
Do you remember her?
Loves insists
I don’t answer
Instead, pain does it for me
Yes, pain said, he still remembers her
He does
A wound opens in my chest
Alas, I’m crying
What questions love hurts me with
There, where it hurts me the most, in my heart?
What answers pain afflicts me with
There, where it pains me the most, in my soul?
