Sally Eslinger Poet Prose Poetry

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.
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(c) sally young Eslinger 9/11/2Thanks be to God

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Chuck Melugin September 14, 2021 at 4:46 PM Tears sometimes tears your heart! Tears sometimes cause tears! Great write!

Harry Horsman September 13, 2021 at 9:49 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 September 14, 2021 at 9:37 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

Joseph P. DiMino September 11, 2021 at 12:53 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 September 14, 2021 at 9:39 AM Truth

Darlene De Beaulieu September 11, 2021 at 12:05 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 September 14, 2021 at 9:44 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