Tears, tears please leave my eyes. <br />I do not wish to sympathize <br />with all that seems to trouble me. <br />If you will leave then I'll be free. <br /> <br />Each time I feel my eyes are dry <br />guilt appears and then I cry. <br />Salty tears that dribble on my face <br />bring me to a sad, sad place. <br /> <br />Smiles please replace my tears. <br />I do not wish in my waning years <br />to spend my days in deep-felt sorrow. <br />I need to awaken to a bright tomorrow. <br /> <br />The tears I've shed could fill a lake. <br />And oh the toll that they did take. <br />What good they are I do not know. <br />They just come. They just flow.<br /><br />Edwina Reizer<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/tears-387/
