Poetry

Carpenter's tears

written by: alf hickey

Forming, growing, living drops
Falling upward to the Father
Drowning pain as water
Twirling streams cyclonic
Our origins unravelling
Rage of unrequited love
Strands of life-captured-time
Beginning to the end of all
In His heart's hand held
Suffering weave of striving
To one's own wood rejected
Till tears turn to blood
Downward falling lead-like
Melting this globe dripping
Consuming in the consumation
Whose blood breathes His breath
Those carved by The mouth's chisel
Animation by His lumber lungs
Blood burying with His blood too
Tears floating us to the second life