Twenty Tissues

A Poem by Kay

i soaked twenty tissues

cupped my pool of tears

as they streamed in soft diamonds

like raindrops slipping off gutter pipes

caught them in my hand

a salty, sorrowful ocean

stared into my handheld mirror

and asked myself

why aren’t there enough

angel wings in this box?

© 2022 Kay

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Added on April 27, 2018
Last Updated on September 30, 2022

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Kay

United Kingdom

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