text: the name of the poet who wrote, "if tears could build a stairway"?   so far as i know, the author is unknown.  unless, of course, you are talking about that song by desiree leemets (the country singer).  ;)   if tears could build a stairway, and memories were a lane, i would walk right up to heaven to bring you home again. no farewell words were spoken, no time to say good-bye, you were gone before i knew it, and only god knows why. my heart still aches in sadness and secret tears still flow, what it means to lose you, no one will ever know.  author: unknown