Reprinted with permission of author. First published in Visions of Paradise: The International Library of Poetry, p. 187 (Sullivan, John C., ed., Maryland: Watermark Press, 2000)
By Emily Helen Yearwood
On the sinking sun are my tears
Streaming wildly down my face
As my heart is slowly cracking
Into tiny pieces
Soon there will be no heart
Just a stone girl in a puddle of tears
Reprinted with permission of author. First published in Visions of Paradise: The International Library of Poetry, p. 187 (Sullivan, John C., ed., Maryland: Watermark Press, 2000)