I Cried One Day

One day I cried

A tear forming in my eye

And catching in my lashes

There was just the one

Which seemed much sadder

Than if my face had been awash

In a flood of salty unhappiness

It seemed such a bother

To wipe away

---after all it was just the one

It was much less than

The wetness

I heard outside

Streaming down the panes

Of my bedroom window

Being pushed aside

By the weight of car tires

Speeding along their way

The kind of wetness

That can knock over telephone poles

Crash through levees

Drown cattle

And wash away cars

What's one tear compared to that?