Lachrymology
It’ll begin easily.
With a text usually –
In which one or other
Of my friends will say.
“I cried yesterday.”
To which the inane response is always
“Did you? I hope it was a good cry.”
But what cry is ever good?
While the reason for it
Is rarely sought,
(At least not too deeply)
Still the vulnerability of it
Is completely understood –
What I mean is:
I wish you the catharsis
Of tears
More than the experience.
And I hope
That peace and silence
(Rather than an endless
Charybdis of pain)
Reign as a consequence.
(© Copyright Pola Negri, 02/08/2017.)
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