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If the sky never cried

We wouldn't eat

We wouldn't find the nourishment

To dance in the sun

We'd only be lying on our backs

Tongues dry and peeling

Poking out like turtles from the cracked shells of our mouths.

"Too much of a good thing," I guess

(Though I'm not quite sure

What "good" is anyways)


If the sky never cried

I think my tears would feel lonelier

Or purposeless

But instead, when I stand outside

And let both cascade down my cheeks

One hot, one cold

I'm suddenly reminded of

My humanity

And the strange, enduring comfort it is that

The thing that keeps the world

From collapsing in on top of me

Shares this same necessary release—

As gravity works its natural blessing

To pull our emotions down

And saturate the earth,

I don't quite know

Whose tears fall faster

Or harder

But I do know

It is good

To cry together





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