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
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