missed opportunity?

          had i attempted
                        over the past
                                        17 months
                                                     to collect
                                                      my tears,
                                         my sorrow
               i wonder how much
      i would have fulfilled
              an eyedropper
              a teaspoon
              a tablespoon
              a cup
              a jar
              a pitcher
              a bowl
              a bucket
              a barrel
              a spring
              a stream
              a river
              an ocean
              a world
              a moon
              a galaxy
              a universe
                      or,
              a black hole

                      of . . .