Wrote this one in June 1996 while going through a rough time in my life. I was trying to deal with a lot of negativity that was going on in my family and this was my way of expressing how much I needed to cry without crying in front of my family. You see, my dad saw crying as a weakness and if he ever caught one of us crying, he would always say, " I will give you something to cry for" and grab the belt. So it took me many years to realize that it is ok to cry without the worry of being punished for something so natural.
Tears of Pain
There are many tears of pain,
Waiting for the opportunity to fall,
But there is nothing to gain.
These tears stay bottled up inside
Till one day they decide to come
Flowing from my weary eyes.
These tears of pain are from
Years of silence;
A silence that is waiting to burst like a dam.
What if the dam bursts and tears start
Flowing with no way to stop?
What then do you do?
Let them flow freely until
One by one they are shed
And the soul is cleansed and
There will be one day the tears
Will be of happiness, not of pain.
By: Thressa (Dunn) Scott
Copyright: June 1996
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