Silent tears

Author Jo Smith..  This day, Friday Jan. 31,  2025.

[There is a new poem screaming to be written.  I said no, but it refused to be denied.

It showed me it's first two lines yesterday but I refused to write it.  Today it began nudging at me again, demanding to be written.  Again I said no.  I do not wish to write you.  But it refused to be denied.

So it began giving me more and more until finally I could no longer deny it the chance to live.  So here goes:]

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You placed a huge smile on my face

Which nothing could erase.

You caused joy to bloom in my  heart.

But then you said, we must part.

The joy died and the smile was gone.

Now I am left with nothing but a sad song.

I allowed no one to see the silent tears;

Tears that I hid for many years.

My heart shed invisible tears over you.

No one sees the river of tears except a few.

The heart cries and the soul dies when Love takes its flight. 

But I shall never give up the fight.

I must continue my fight to find a way to return.

Return to what?  My heart knows nothing now but to yearn.

Yearning to once more hear your voice;  to learn once more to rejoice.

No, there is no rejoicing to be had

Since you left me here so very sad.

Perhaps in another world when the invisible tears have all been shed;

You will return and together we will be led

To that fountain of youth;  to the River of life;

A life that will be without trouble and strife.  

Then and only then will my heart cease its crying.

And I will be upon God’s love relying.

I will say to HIM, thank you for teaching me your way.

I will never again from Your will stray.

You are truly my all in all.

You have kept me from that great fall.

My only request to my Lord is this:

Let my darling be here with me in this heavenly bliss.

I will then give him my loving kiss.

And I will at last let him know it is him that I miss.