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Cold Tears

Cold Tears Cold are the slow running tears. Cold. Stunning. Not ignorable. Hated. Cold because they know they shall be hated, because pain or grief or conflict and not tenderness has created them. Hated tears. Not born from joyful prayers, nor from gut-shaking laughter, or from being witness to splendor. The hated tears come from hurt, from a cracking of the heart’s rainbow shell: bleeding tears. Not even warm at their start. From their origin of pain they stream despised and cold: those tears, from sad, stinging-hot eyes, seeking some hope that the heart might again find a golden seal gracing over its shell. ——————————————- (c) sally young Eslinger 9/11/2Thanks be to God

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Chuck Melugin

Date: 9/14/2021 4:46:00 PM

Tears sometimes tears your heart! Tears sometimes cause tears! Great write!

Harry Horsman

Date: 9/13/2021 9:49:00 PM

Reading this, you've been hurt, if factual, i'm sorry for your pain, yet the one out let is your poetry, this one is powerful and hopefully will raise you up, and give you strength.

Sally Eslinger
Date: 9/14/2021 9:37:00 AM

Hi Harry! Thanks for stopping and giving such a supportive comment. I write about tears a lot it seems, but there are different kinds for different reasons from joys from communing with God in prayer to grieving death of loved ones to anger as here. Writing does help the passion. Xoxosally

Joe Dimino

Date: 9/11/2021 12:53:00 PM

Hi Sally; there are tears...and then their are tears...cold, irretractable tears. Mostly we cannot seal them over, golden (by the way, great poetic expression "Golden Seal!") or otherwise -- but, are forced to reinvent ourselves, forced to live multiple personalities, hopping back and forth between them, after slipping back in memory to an unpleasant one. They are what makes us poets/poetess, as opposed to simply interesting writers. Poetry requires tears. Prerequisite. Great read! Blessings.

Sally Eslinger
Date: 9/14/2021 9:39:00 AM

Truth

Darlene De Beaulieu

Date: 9/11/2021 12:05:00 PM

Hello Sally, yes tears can be cold. Thes type of tears are cold because they are hurting tears. Which take time to heal. Hugs Darlene

Sally Eslinger
Date: 9/14/2021 9:44:00 AM

Exactly. These tears caused the writing of this poem and they did come from hurt upon arguing with Jim. They struck me though as I realized that unlike other tears I’ve noticed & written about they came out and flowed cold. Imagine! Thanks for reading and commenting! Xoxo sally