My tears

I cried like a girl
Absolutely uncontrollable
I couldn’t stop
And I couldn’t breathe.
All I knew were tears
Tears that would not stop.
That had welled up for far too long

Finally, the dam broke.

The one person I wanted
To stop them and dry my eyes
Was the one I didn’t want to know
That I cried
The one that I couldn’t handle knowing
That these tears were my tears over him

It felt like the world would end
That my eyes would close
My lungs would collapse
And my heart stop
It would all stop
But these tears would forever flow.

And now the dam is broken
The work on restoration has to begin
I’m confused where to start though
Because now my tears have broken free
Finally I feel a little freer

But I know
I know that in the loneliness of my mind
My tears still flow