From where does the thundercloud come with its black sacks of tears?~ Neruda’s ‘The Book of Questions’ (El libro de las preguntas).
Wild
broken-hearted tears
of lovers lost
or never found
in the first place.
Tears of anger, disappointment
frustration and loneliness —
desperate
tears offered up to Heaven
when all else failed —
tears that even the angels couldn’t dry,
stuffed inside a random cloud
and sent away
like a scapegoat.
