Flowing tears, tears flowing

Flowing tears, tears flowing

Sometimes the tears flowing down your face are your tears; tears of joy, tears of pain, tears of frustration, tears of elation.

Sometimes the tears flowing down your face are yours from yesterday; remembering times gone by, good times and bad times, happy times and sad times.

Sometimes the tears flowing down your face are not for you; tears of compassion for a friend, tears of sympathy for family, tears of empathy for the ones you do not know.

Sometimes the tears flowing down your face are tears from the past; tears that grandma forgot to cry, tears that auntie’s dried-up eyes could no longer make, tears that grandpa refused to show, tears that your ancestors were afraid to let go.

Sometimes the tears flowing down your face are tears for the future; tears of despair, tears of anticipation, tears of hope.

Sometimes the tears flowing down your face are flowing from you; and sometimes the tears are flowing through you.

All times the tears flowing down your face remind you of your humanity, and your connectedness to life.
Rev. Anthony Farmer