Tears

For a friend who I love who is crying now.

TEARS

byAnnaR


We need our tears
For they cleanse our mind
Helping us to look at our life
With a clear clean view.

I feel so sorry for
Girls who can’t cry
For their emotion wells up
Like a storm cloud.

Exploding emotions
Like lightening flashes
Leaving nothing but damage
Achieving nothing but noise.

One of our beauties
Is our ability to cry
To let tears flow
Down our cheeks.

Wrecking our mascara
Leaving a clown mask
Obscuring temporarily the beauty
Of the stained face.

We are vulnerable,
We are lovely,
We are alone,
We are little again.

All this is good.
Things that give us our heart,
Our identity,
As God’s most perfect design.

We have the gift of tears,
We can shed them for others,
For the inequities of the world,
And - when we are hurt.

I cry often.
I shed tears for little girls who are hurt,
Who are alone,
Who are afraid to cry.

I love my friends
Who proclaim they cry,
For they are real
And beautiful and wonderful.

Blessed are we who cry,
For we shall see the face of God
As he kisses our falling tears
And reminds us we are not alone.

I love you my sister.

©2007 Anna R. Haze