Where did the tears I shed go?

When I asked myself that, my body suddenly grew warm,

as if a break had opened in the black clouds of the evening sky, letting the light stream through.

No one was on the riverbank after the rain.

In that silence I stood alone,

watching as an immense, unseen gearwork that drives the whole world

began to turn—slowly, heavily, without a sound.

The tremor born from that vast machinery

was what set my body aflame.