Best Cried Poems
They told me you cried on the day I died
A sob splintering through a silent dome
Your sorrow a shroud on the catacomb
As I laid where birds no longer replied
Now I watch as you slowly search the beach
For those rare shells edged in liminal blue
I would gift you that impossible hue
To show I was within sight, within reach
Yet I wish you more than what shadows grant
A life in the sun of a springtime glen
Not lost in the gloom of my grave's abyss
Let my legacy be the hope you plant
Blooming with the courage to love again
If you will keep something of me - keep this
It wasn't destiny or fate that brought us together.
There was no roar of thunder,
no strike of a lightning bolt,
no rain cleared my vision.
It was the way you looked at me.
A look, a touch...never enough and never too much.
Tears I wept were drawn from the well of my happiness
from years of loving you.
Your name was inscribed upon my heart.
We held the hands of each other,
not the hands of fate.
Our hands lost their grip in the raging wind of a storm.
Water rising. . . we needed to seek higher ground.
I couldn't climb a mountain
while you kept pulling me down.
It was then I heard the roar of thunder,
lightning struck my heart,
and cold rain cleared my vision.
When the storm passed you were gone
and I was on the mountain top.
I cried alone...for both of us.
Your name is still written on my heart.
That bolt of lightning didn't burn it off
Stinging tears could never wash it away.
Why, Momma, why?
Was I not deserving
of you?
Was I not good?
Was I too frail?
Did you send me away
Because your own life
derailed?
Why, Momma, why
Do I still secretly wail?
Asking myself what did I do so
wrong? How did I fail?
What you called rebelliousness
Was the only way I knew how
to stay strong sometimes, I'd
stay up all night looking after you
Got banged and bruised so that
he wouldn't hurt you
No one else did that
Isn't it true?
Did you ever think about my wounds
That was the only way I knew to
protect you
Instead of helping me
You banished me through lies,
Stripped me from my home,
My siblings, my life
Withheld your love
Because I tried to take my own life
But did you ever stop and think that
Perhaps something in me wasn't right?
Why, momma, why?
Does your absence whisper in me
A forever sorrowful lullaby and
Although, I miss you I love you more
each day that goes by
I forgive you wholeheartedly
Despite that yesterday, I cried
I wouldn't hesitate to wipe
The tears from your eyes if they
ever again were to meet with mine
Last night I cried and to tell the truth
I really don't know why
Perhaps it was the loneliness
or the anger trapped inside
I cried because the things I want
seem like a distant dream
And no one really understands
the way I feel - it seems
I cried because I need someone
to whisper in my ear
"no matter what the problem is
you know I'll be right here"
I cried because I miss my mom
I miss her warm embrace
I couldn't stop the tears from rolling
swiftly down my face
I cried because it seems to me
I'm destined to be alone
or could it be unknowingly
I'm reaping bad seeds I've sown
Did I offend or take for granted
someone in my past
Could that be why I cannot find
a real love that will last
I guess I'll never understand
or find the reason why
But I do know that every now and then
I will break down and cry
copyright2005
He cried when he was happy,
He cried while he was sad,
He cried when he felt nothing,
He cried while he was mad.
He cried when he saw laughter,
He cried when he saw tears,
He cried when he saw someone
Aged beyond their years.
He cried when he would walk home
From Work every day.
He cried when he had free time,
So he drank it away.
He cried when he was loving,
He also cried alone.
He cried looking in eyes
That, for him, only shone.
He cried out of sorrow,
Empathy, and love.
He cried for the scarecrows
And the pure white doves.
He cried into the night,
And throughout the day.
He cried when he was right,
And knew what to say.
He cried out of reason,
Philosophy, and pain.
He cried himself to madness,
Just from being sane.
His love was ever present but quiet…still in it they found relief…so it only stands to reason he’d be quiet in his grief.
There are no rules for dealing with death…which is why, after his wife died,…despite his heart being broken…despite his sorrow…despite all this…he never cried.
His children and friends would visit…wanting to help…and in so many ways they tried…but in spite of their friendship and love…in spite of the sorrow hiding in his heart…in spite of all this…he never cried.
In his mind it was quite simple…there was one hope he kept leaning on…for in spite of what he knew to be true…he could’t accept that she was gone.
After 40 years together he kept hoping…dreaming she would walk through their front door…and greet him with a smile as she’d done a million times before.
Hoping what had happened couldn’t possibly be true…that it must be a mistake…a big misunderstanding…a dream from which he will awake.
In his own time he did come to realize his life would never return to the same track…that his wife is gone forever…that she’ll never be coming back.
On that day…
the day he understood she would no longer be there to hold his hand…
to whisper in his ear…
to look at him wide-eyed…
that is the day he grabbed his heart…
fell to his knees…
that is the day…
he cried.
Prayer Cried Out In The Storming Waves
Fought the waves, the maddened tumbling sea
doomed ship sinking swiftly beneath me
Prayers to God,to every saint I ever knew
no desire to reside beneath this ocean blue
Midnight's stormy fury soon moved past
ship gone, me clinging to a broken mast
Fear, the kind that eats into your soul
rebuked my every hopeful, impossible goal
Prayers renewed with sad desperate pleas
Lord, let me survive these angry seas
The waves beat me about with great delight
I am tired, give me strength to fight
Master,find all the good that rests in me
save me, to do all that you may please
Prayer ended, my legs and arms do so tire
as the last ember was burning in my fire
Hope raced forth in a bright shining light
dawn broke forth from that darkest night
The rays hit me with a soft, sweet breeze
so calm,so very calm my soul was at ease
A single gull flew over my bobbing head
Hope cried out,you live,you are not dead
Land must now be very close hereabouts
So tired but that did not stop my shouts
Thank you Lord,this gift I will never forget
I believe,even though I am not home yet
A rescue ship's horn was soon blasting away
saved I'd be on this fine glorious day
Soon I was safe, safe on board her deck
I knew then faith and prayer saved my neck
Captain said, saw your flare just before dawn
thats when we raced and really poured it on
I was so confused and my mind it did so stun
I had no lifesaving flares and no flare gun!
Robert J. Lindley, 05-24-2015
Note: Was it a dream, my memory tells me I lived it.
In another life so long ago.
Tonight tears hewed
Flowing into a vaso of wine
Over rainbows
Dreams get lost
Lovers fade
True friends rare
I miss the ones
Who traveled far
Crawling
Out from crowds
White rose's of mystery
Alone my smile hides
Lost desires
If only
A tear could be shared
Between two
A Squirrel Cried
I heard outside a mournful sound
I went outside to look around
A squirrel cried for heaven’s sake
Cried as if he heart did break
A from the corner of my eye
I saw a pair of wings fly by
Wings that took off for the trees
I saw at once the squirrel freeze
I ran to see where it had flown
A nearby tree on the golf course zone
And when I got under that tree
A great big hawk looked down at me
Then once again the bird set sail
Within his grasp, a squirrel’s tail
And I too then got glassy eyed
For I knew why the squirrel cried
true story - happened in my backyard yesterday morning. the squirrel continued to cry for about 30 minutes. I think it was a young squirrel that lost its mother.
I Cried
We danced and kissed under the stars all night
When we parted ways I cried
Our last kiss on this earth
She cried, She died inside over and over again, She was trapped in herself
and she had no way of escaping. Taking drugs to dull the mud that's been in her
eyes
for years. She's so far away from reality that it's like she is constantly
sleeping.
She has to remind herself what's fictional and what's fact because the
hallucinations wouldn’t let her breath, they’d lie to her every chance she gets.
Turning her mom into a monster not butterflies suddenly this high becomes a
nightmare. One she had been fighting for so long, 16 and still traveling the same
rode as so many younger than her. She didn't listen to all the voices that tried to
tell her what she was missing because truly reality is the thing that makes life
worth living. To her reality was the guy who had raped her constantly when she was
young, Why choose reality when you could live in a dream world where everything had
excuses. Not only could she not recognize the girl who cried constantly in the
mirror but she'd done so many things to herself that even her eyes were a different
color.
It hurt so bad not to remember so she continued to fade until soon it seemed
better.
In an idiotical world where there were always smiles, It wasn't until she got help
that she realized the real world was never always pleasant. It was filled with hate
and lies and pain but that's something real and something she needed to face.
Something she needed to open her eyes to, life would never be cake and she couldn't
have her victory without tasting poison at least once. So when the tears dried and
the wounds healed she signed up for a special thing a thing called GED and she got
it.
I almost cried…..
When we fought,
And you went away.
I almost cried…..
When we were all alone,
and had nothing to say.
I almost cried…..
When in night,
You slept away from me.
I almost cried…..
When your arms,
were not there to hug me.
I almost cried…..
When in the morning,
You didn’t wake me up with a good morning kiss.
I almost cried…..
When from the bottom of my heart…
Oh baby, you were missed.
Will you not come back to me?
Will I be all alone again?
Will I be crying forever?
Will I be again in pain?
Come back to me….
For I cry out loud…
With you I promise I’ll be.
At the pain-struck point of passing the
universe in me that cried of loss
imploded every star and moon
until a meteoric cross
was borne upon my back.
At the dawn of dark despairing the
universe in me that cried denial
shook forgotten childhood roots,
cranked the grief and all the while
let light succumb to black.
In the echoed eves of emptiness the
universe in me that cried so numb
evicted nearly all my faith
and tapped upon a funeral drum
that almost beat us both.
In the latter leap of letting go the
universe in me that cried her name,
embraced of all she ever was,
from pure love salvation came
and prayed for my re-growth.
Form:
Another day is almost past;
How fast they go and speed away,
Twilight rolls over sunset’s gold,
Like tidal waves keep beaches at bay.
Memories remembered, no new ones made,
As TV and book on a Lazy Boy left,
Caring children are paying the price,
For Mama’s comfort, though she’s bereft.
Smiling starches and SAS soft shoes
Come to roll her back to her room where
Mama may drowse in tearful query,
“How did this come, so soon, so soon. “
I cried at the lake
Ripples of tears across smooth water
I cried at the brook
My tears fell into gurgles that turned to giggles
I cried at the ocean
Where the surf swallowed my tears to be no more
Then, I smiled at the sun
As it toasted the beach sand hot
I smiled at the sun
As it sparkled in the brook
I smiled at the colors in the lake water
As I watched the sun set
Taking my tears below the horizon
Leaving me, watching, smiling
Standing on an empty shore
In the dark where stars lit up the sky
--- I cried, I smiled ---
Heidi Sands
11/1817