River Without Banks ..

I cried a lonely tear.  I watched it falling

down onto the ground where I stood,  waiting

for some sort of word, or a message, telling

me of your fate,  your  life,  your  meaning.





How  long  will  it  take  that  tear,  absorbing

into the Sands of  Time,  its  Grief  dissolving,

to  reach  the Seas of Life, and there, diluting,

spread  out  on  the  Sea's  surface, evaporating?





Into  the  sky,  it  turns  into  a  cloud, coalescing,

then  blown by the Winds of Fate to you, it is standing

between you and the Sun of Loneliness, your face shading,

reminding you with shadow-kisses : "love is sure, abiding".





I wonder on the very limits of Love, hoping, waiting.

I cry another lonely tear.  I watch it falling........







LOVE  IS  A  RIVER  WITHOUT  BANKS

Author's Notes/Comments: 

"Soldier's Wisdom" from a beach in Eye-corps. 1967

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