My Heart Is Full

The tears of a lifetime I have saved in my heart Each chamber a well Calmly doing its part. Some tears are so happy First kiss, wedding, births Those tears feel lighter Gravity less than earth’s. They are clear and they sparkle A biographical snow globe I swim in their light In a crystal wardrobe. The sad tears, they scare me Putrid, thick, rank and dark They make my heart heavy Churning, feeling no spark. I dare not revisit These roots, abject anguish For they swallow my soul And in pain simply languish. Some tears are empty Having leaked out at times When I felt all alone Life devoid of all rhymes. These tears were in secret Things so desolate and hollow Yet reflect strength to resist Ending life with a swallow. So my heart, then, is full Not of blood, veins and such But a lifetime lived hard, Memories that tears touch. September 9, 2019