Featured in Farrago Magazine Edition Five 2026

Design by Eliska Elliott

Tears fall hardest

when fattened with well-kept sorrow.

Like how clouds rain

when they're heavily greyed,

like how petals fall

when they're long browned. 

Clouds are caressed

and pushed gently to dispersion

by warm summer winds. 

Petals nurture the earth,

adding their faded colours;

a growing richness

for new seedlings. 

Tears can be wiped away

once sorrow is broken free,

and the heart is unclenched. 

The past falls away further,

and further,

and further,

until it's gone.