If your tears fall, let ‘em fall. Don’t wipe ‘em no more.
-- Erv Gotti

You’re human. You hurt. Cry.

You’re overjoyed and it feels good to your soul. Cry.

You’re a woman. You’re a man. Cry.

The world bunched your panties in a wad, popped your bra, and has you upside down by the jock strap. Cry.

You don’t have to suck it up and be a big girl about it. You don’t have to hide or numb how you feel. You feel it, it causes pain, you cry.

When the tears run down your face, if they gush like fountains and rivers or trickle like a leaky faucet, whether you’re happy or sad, in public or private, in the right or wrong, let them fall. Don’t wipe them anymore.

Sadiqqa © 2007