sorrow's cavernous joy

caverns of sorrow
streaked. tear streamed
cheeks flow
down sedimented
streams. seas
swallow dreams,
spat back as strewn
seaweed. heaped
and confused, fused
to shifty sand.
salted, these
wounds in sorrowed
canyons born.

rise now, tears
that fell like rain.
rivulets drip rivers,
driven by heart beaten
blood drops. surging.
pulsing. purging.
the weeping proceeds
where tears precede. then
recede, finding joy, fishing
in the sea
of forgotten dreams.
where all streams
>joyful | sad<
finish journeys.

memories.
where shadows
carve out the light.
when sadness takes
time, making
space for joy
to flow in
too.