Consummate pain <br />Like a cruel wrench <br />Gripped his heart <br />And crushed, it bled <br />A father's tears. <br /> <br />No words define <br />His anguished grief <br />A wretched loss <br />His own son... <br />His seed. <br /> <br />The baby he carried <br />In his arms <br />And nurtured <br />In paternal love <br />Now broken, scarred <br />A shriveled man <br />His father's eyes <br />Now bleed. <br /> <br />He would take him back <br />To be his child <br />Return him safely <br />To his past <br />No war could touch him <br />Hidden there <br />His eyes see through <br />An hourglass. <br /> <br />My boy, my son! <br />What have they done? <br />Your life a mangled mess <br />What's left to do? <br />These father's tears <br />Will not replace <br />The boy, the man <br />That I once knew! <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />- <br />May 12,2009 Tarlac City Philippines<br /><br />Cynthia BuhainBaello<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-father-s-tears-free-verse/
