Tears shed in memory's sake,
or those that fall in the moments
of our grief and sorrow~
those are the tears,
the tears we keep.
The tears that flow from laughing eyes
in times of blissful joy
and gather in a smile's corner~
those are the tears,
the tears we keep.
The one's that seep inside our soul,
afraid to be allowed passage,
afraid that other's will know
their source~
those are the tears,
the tears we keep.
Tears~
we discard so many,
the painful and hurtful ones.
But 'those' tears,
each tiny droplet,
the ones filled with liquid emotion~
each solitary tear,
cascading slowly,
can tell an entire story~
those are the tears,
the tears we keep.