By Stephen
Date: 2001 Sep 01
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Actor's Tear

the tears are swelling up
when my heart decides to twist
knotting through waterfalls down
my cheeks
it stings
bruises
bleeds
but nothing is transparent through
the crystal electron screen
painful so painful this rejection
the cast-away she can't see
I wonder why I even lay these droplets
when they will never be seen over
aol instant messager...
AIM...
responding so happily
while the hurt visits so fondly
I can't take this masquerade
I can't take my heart being staked to a fantasy
a hope
a dream
a seed of empathy trapped
in a soiled cavern of horrid entropy
this is how life is slain I said
this is how I want to leave I said
goodnight as text
sweet dreams in pixels
good-bye through wires
you'll never know the sadness
you'll never see these tears