I know why you cry

In the quiet hollow times when no one is watching

While reading the passage of the lovers’ first kiss

I know why you cry

When the waves crash on rocky shores under an amber sky

When the music touches some forgotten place in your soul

You think it’s for love of another

You think it’s for connection to the world of beings and things

You think it’s for something grander than you

But it’s not



I know why you cry

Feel yourself at the bottom

Of a deep, deep well

Drowning in the tears

Of a lifetime’s sorrow

I know why you cry

Because I cry too

At the bottom of my own deep well

I know why you cry

Because for a moment

I stopped

I listened

I looked

I saw the walls weep

I heard the walls whisper

And the walls said,

Longing

Not for the love of another

Longing

Not for the connection to life I could not feel

Longing

Not for the sense of purpose in some grand design

No.

I know why you cry

Because I cry too

Longing for a love within

Longing for a connection to my own being

Longing for no more than to feel alive

I know why we cry

We cry, not for what is missing in our life

We cry for what we have not put into it

We cry, not for what others have not given us

We cry for what we have not given ourselves

Love

Openness

Surrender

When we give ourselves these

Our well becomes the mountain

Atop which we stand

Transforming our tears

They become gratitude

They become joy

They become love

And I will happily cry these tears everyday

For through them I see love more clearly

Following the trail they blaze, I find connection to all things

Tasting their salty nectar, I learn my purpose:

To love

To be generous

To live with grace, abandon, surrender, kindness, forgiveness

I know why you cry

Will you cry with me?