Tears On My Pillow

Tears on my pillow I woke up crying, tears on my pillow. Mother Nature followed me. With rain on fallen leaves. Maybe, I could cry a million tears. Maybe, I already have. But I will thank you for these tears. You allowed me to have my feelings When I was just a young child. Before they stole me and turned off the light. Forcing me to be someone else. I screamed in the night. For you, for her, I flailed, I fought. Then suddenly, I pretended to be that someone else. I tried everything I could. Until the day my life became my own. Now I wipe these tears with a smile that is real. I wrap your blessing forever to keep. Knowing I am happy, just the way I am. Heidi Sands