the restlessness I sense is love emote
like a baby first wailing with air in throat
or a heart cave-hidden from the sun remote
or sailing upon the seas in a sinkless boat
adrift for a million years.

can you drown in tears?
have you tried, have you cried?
or is it better to remain sullen
and above the tides
that sweep away memories
of love side-by-side,
and use your eyes only
henceforth to see,
tearless, wide?
 
to clearly see that sea of a billion tears
and the sinkless boat of a million years
with the gimlet prescience of a peerless seer
knowing forever
you’ll have nothing to fear
because you can no longer feel.