The Memorial of Fallen Drops

A single drop in a thousand

and truly we are like water

Which rushes in a single voice

Which flows as one

as we do

for we cry out in one voice

for one pain

 

A life lost

[Mario L. Santoro,

Leonard W. Hatton Jr.,

Keith George Farben]

is only one drop falling

into the deep unknown

 

An falling to a depth

where none can see it

the drop reaches

a paradise of heaven

 

We love with our minds

and our hopes fall to the depths

 

I wish to sip the cool sweet water

Harlem Daydream

On that street

Somewhere between 140th and 160th

He was on the sidewalk.

West Harlem

and a shoe shop

washing the windows with a dirty rag.

A pink sneaker and a red sneaker

He thought of his beating heart

Like the pumping of a ball on a court

Thump

Thump

And the swishing of the rag

washing, washing away

the dirt of a New York street

cabs and passion

and the clicking of  high heels

and all the gum stuck down like the horizon to the treetops

 

He says

I ain’t got a place to be but here

and if I can’t see through this here window

I can’t see nothing at all