All Things Wept. Poem by Dónall Dempsey

All Things Wept.

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The rain fell
like sorrow.

The rain fell
like loss.

It fell about
the house

shattered
like glass.

It was as if
the world wept

& eternity
wept too.

Everything
wept.

All things
wept

except
I

who knowing
there were no tears

that I could cry
to bring you back

to ease
the agony of your absence...

I abandoned
the house

lashed now
by the rain

blinded
by the rain.

I cried out
your name

&
cried.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Scarlett Treat 06 February 2008

Laugh, and the world laughs with you...cry, and you cry alone...I love the phrasing of the 'shattered' raindrops. Beautifully sad, this one...painful, yet beautiful.

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Michael Pruchnicki 05 February 2008

Donall, you got a Gaelic way with words! An Irish William Carlos Williams you could be!

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Dónall Dempsey

Dónall Dempsey

Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, Eire.
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