Poetry

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TEARS IN A BOTTLE by Charles Baker

"Thou tellest my wanderings, put thou tears in Thy bottle: are they not in Thy Book?"
--Psalm 56:8

I keep my tears
bottled up,
my mourning dew
trapped inside
a glass house
for all to see.

I pour my tears
out, all at once
or let them slowly ascend
into the heavens,
a rainbow of emotions.

I pray my tears,
haul them everywhere
to heaven, even--
where God sees
the transparent me.

I release my tears,
I give them away,
as God lets go
of what I've spent
a lifetime building up.

There are no tears in heaven.

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