Written by Todd Matson
Tears well up
as oceans within
only to freeze on my face,
freeze within the narrow canals
of my tear ducts, damming the seven
seas to a bottle washed up on shore, damning
me to solitary in the bitter cold of winter
though surrounded by thousands
under the warmth of the sun,
and all this, all this after
only a few cold words
spoke silence into
the empty space
between us.
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Todd Matson is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in North Carolina, United States. His poetry has been published in The Journal of Pastoral Care and Counseling; Soul-Lit: A Journal of Spiritual Poetry; The Clayjar Review; Agape Review; Mindfull Magazine; San Antonio Review and The Brussels Review, and his short stories have been published in Ariel Chart International Literary Journal; Faith, Hope and Fiction; Agape Review; Spirit Fire Review and Words of the Lamb Magazine. He has also written lyrics for songs recorded by several contemporary Christian music artists, including Brent Lamb, Connie Scott and The Gaither Vocal Band.