The Color of My Tears

<p>Poetry often serves as a way for people to voice the emotions that they might otherwise keep inside—to come to terms with unexpressed feelings and bring them out into the open.</p><p>In <em>The Color of My Tears</em> author Deborah Owens presents a collection of verse that does that and more. These poems can transport you to another time and place—fifteenth-century England the Harlem Renaissance or the sixties and seventies. Using a romantic imagination Owens explores experiences and memories both good and bad happy and sad reveling in the ups and downs of love and life. She builds a collage of emotion in her verses providing a unique poetic journey.</p><p><strong><em>Bitter Pain of Laughter</em></strong></p><p><em>If the truth be told you had no love for me.</em></p><p><em>I cried;</em></p><p><em>you laughed.</em></p><p><em>At my pain you laughed.</em></p><p><em>And though I hurt</em></p><p><em>you turned your face.</em></p><p><em>I could not help but feel the volume of your laughter</em></p><p><em>for it pierced my soul.</em></p><p><em>I screamed in agony</em></p><p><em>while you laughed.</em></p><p><em>It was as if my pain meant nothing to you.</em></p><p><em>All that I asked of you</em></p><p><em>was that you would not torment me so</em></p><p><em>but that just made you laugh even more.</em></p>