our emotions try to prove it!
When pain comes our way
if it’s big enough
we cry
Warm tears flood from our eyes
as though the bad can be washed away
somehow, it does help
Does anyone know how?
Today I’m thinking of the other sort
the tears that flow from ‘happy’
Very, very happy!
Good! Very good!
Oh, so good!
A famous Army general
broke the ice with his comment:
“I don’t trust a man who doesn’t cry!”
This from a very tough guy.
So we now have license, we men!
I cried okay when a child
little boys were often admonished
‘Big boys don’t cry!”
I took that to heart.
and gave my life to Christ
to be my Lord, my Savior.
Maybe you can guess what happened?
I cried.
So, for forty years now,
for exceeding happy
for sad and tender
I can cry.
And it’s okay.
50 years ago come April
I met the girl who married me.
50 years December
we’ll pause to celebrate the wedding.
I’ll bet the happy tears
would fill some buckets now!
Precious, the word,
has grown and grown
I put strong arms around the thought
and then around her
and I cry
little warm tears
Happy tears……
Lin 3/2010