Teardrop
The polar ice caps
Like elders
Our parents
Watching over us
Balancing us
Are crying
Weeping away
Their hoary heads
Of white wisdom
Disappearing in tears
Of melting snow and ice
Changing into a flood
A giant teardrop
Of regret
Cleansing us.
November 2016.
Copyright by D. J. Brennan, Derbyshire.
