Rainbow Tears

A Poem by Chet

I cried a rainbow tear
And talked to the man in the moon
I shadowed the silvery dusk
And walked another mile.

What is this?
She cried out to my self.
How do you look in the mirror?
I tried, I said, its tough.

Go home!
She said
This place is only for the rest of us.

I took my hat, my coat, my umbrella
And turned into the night.
It was cold dark and dangerous
My nose burned in the acid air.

I turned back.

I just need some time,
To recover, so I gave her my watch
She took it and looked so pale
Just a moment, she said, and then was no more.

The trees came to be,
the grass between my toes
The air so clean
The sun beamed a happy day.

I sat by an old oak tree
A moment it seems
An eternity it seems

The tree didn't care.
Didn't know
Didn't mind
It was just there.

I sat and I watched
The Forrest alive
The deer to eat
Rabbits run by, foxes reaching up to sniff the air.

Was I there a day, a week, a year?
I did not know.
But she returned just the same.
It's time, she said.

I lowered my head, I had no more to offer.
You will go now, she said.
It was not a request.
But still I sat with my coat, hat and umbrella.

And waited for the rainbow tears.