Agony

A child’s innocence dissipates

when he hears the tears roll from her eyes.

When his whimsical gesture turns into a vortex,

engulfing everything he has known,

that is when he know the agony.

An ocean trembles. A mountain weeps.

Staring sharply up towards the raining sky,

he vows: I will grow up. I won’t let this happen again.

3.6.2025