A single tear

She stood there

dazed

Lost completely

in thoughtfulness

Everyone wept

but not she

She shed no tears

She did not cry

Untouched

unmoved

Almost

stone hearted

I wondered

If she knew no sadness

If she had no room for grief

For the corpse on the pyre

and her mother’s departed soul

She remained transfixed

in a deep reverie

trying hard to understand

and accept

the realities dawning on her

In all its coldness

And finally

a single tear drop fell

Some loss

Are so huge

Some sorrows

Cannot be expressed

just a single tear

expresses it all