Tears

By Michael L. Alumbaugh, ©  1977, 2014

Ever feel like crying? Ever cried? Ever resisted crying but the tears flowed anyway? Ever catch yourself with tears in your eyes, so absorbed in the moment they took you by surprise? 

We all have had these moments. And what situations or circumstances produced them? Did you ever think that tears come in different varieties? Joy, sorrow, sympathy, laughter, empathy, pain, worship, conscience, onions, admiration, self-pity, praise, contemplation of things on the horizons, reflecting or recalling some event from the past all produce tears. 

This short poem embraces the value of those life eventualities: moments we wish had never occur hoping they would never return, while at other times the shear ecstasy and exhilaration causes us to wish they would never end. Consider tears as another gift from God and be thankful. They do make the moment.

Tears are tears

No matter how small.

The joy comes in knowing

How often they fall.