A Tear

What's in a tear? Is it love, hope, sadness, fear? I feel it well and mar my sight I feel it when the darkness turns to night A sweet warm turn of key A long ago surfaced memory I know not why it returns just now I only now that for now it holds pow'r Is it the song or is it sorrow That brings tear from field so fallow The salty, bitter, wet repeat Of a pain we relive through history It comes in pain and love and after story It even comes with pull of glory Whether glory or love or pain or fear It still stands, a testament of humanity here A temp brand of strife, internal or extere* It makes me human, one of you, more near * Extere = Exterior