Do Buddhas Weep? Poem by Eric Cockrell

do buddhas weep?
do trees bend in the moonlight
as if to touch the grass?
do mountains groan in their stillness?
do the bird's wings taste the sky?
do the mouths of the dying
form prayers that the living
cannot hear, or understand?

does the wind know
from whence it came?
does it care?
does it know where it's going?
does it matter?

when we lay the clothes
of suffering down...
and walk naked into the night,
will we be alone?

and if i made love to you
across this distance...
would you dream of wolves,
and candles?

do buddhas weep?