Teardrops

These are my tears

They fall down from the heavens,

A hundred thousand points of glimmering light

I stand, and let the tears flow down my cheeks

For an eternity, the water has not flown from my eyes

Five years of refusal, five years of pain

So it should come as no surprise that today, like every day, the drops would not come

But surprise me it did

And so I stand out in the rain

Letting the cleansing drops wash my face

Standing still, standing alone

The heavens I let cry for me

Maybe this was how it was always meant to be

For I am rejected each step I take, always turned away

If this is my fate, then I will accept it

But I still feel the need to cry

For an eternity, I build up a dam that would not crack, no matter what

If all that was precious was stolen away, my eyes would still be as the desert

But that dam was built just a little too well

Because now, when I finally want to, I just can’t let them flow

The clouds are grey, sending their drops of life down to the earth

And I stand out in the rain, my face towards the heavens

And as I stand, a thought goes through my mind

“Why… am I alone?”