A Single Tear

A Single Tear

              -for Silvia

 

A single tear escapes,

and travels a lonely cheek.

 

One single drop,

slow

and carefully

crawls

from the eye,

through the valley

between cheek bone and nose,

and places a gentle kiss

on the side of the mouth.

 

A single tear,

born from within,

from a single memory,

from one fragment of a life,

not a life,

but a life remembered.

 

One beautiful diamond

into the pool.