“Big girls don’t cry,” he said to me Then he hung up “Oh yes they do,” I whispered into The dead space Where I had been suspended For a thousand years
ShhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhSh
What came next was a Low lingering silence And then tears One after another they fell Like exotic salty crystals Droplets clung to my lashes Like tiny diamonds Slivers of a crescent moon Fell onto my cupped hands Until I could not contain it anymore
These tears filled an ocean And became a home for Wild roaming things A safe haven for Creatures unimaginable Magical, primal Caressing this lovely body
And I rose Unbroken From this sea A Goddess.