and

and the sun answered

my tears with a reflection

off the waters that came

from its sky

and the child in him

saw the future of the

man whose eyes were

(only) made to cry

and the burden of expectation

took away his drive to

move on from his past

and his moments of doubt

and the snow soon

filled his weary cap

to where none returned,

so he cried out!

and the darkness took

up residence in his lifetime

of disappointments that

cruelly made, for him, a home

and while the choirs sang

songs of gladness loud

before his mansion's windows is where he stood alone