Obscured by clouds <br />a hidden Orion <br />listens to your <br />crying <br /> <br />in a well kept <br />garden <br />a constellation <br />of flowers <br /> <br />tenderly tended <br />by your hand <br />listens to the rain <br />teaching them <br /> <br />how to grow <br />row after row <br />the flowers <br /> <br />cannot begin <br />to know <br />of how your <br />human grief <br /> <br />tries to lose <br />itself <br />in each of their faces <br />seeing again <br />your dead daughter <br /> <br />smile <br />upon your tears <br />your hands <br />mechanically <br />gathering moonlight <br />that isn't there.<br /><br />Dónall Dempsey<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/moonlight-gardening/
