Tears are powerful things, and often symbolic… They’re also, frequently, a source of embarrassment and awkwardness, both on the part of the person shedding the tears and on the part of witnesses to them. It’s been shown that the release of tears is physically beneficial. When we cry, irritants and stress hormones are released. Tears contain healthy antibodies and serve to cleanse the eyes. Tears, in other words, are necessary and helpful. They also, often, represent a letting go - a reaching the end of the line, a metaphoric dying, before a re-birth or resurrection. Tears are powerful and are a part of us, who shed them - a part that we set free to flow, and that lead us to renewed strength and better places. So, cry. Weep, if you will. Don’t be ashamed. Let tears flow like rivers and, as the Nile creates a fertile, green valley in which civilizations have grown since time began, let the rivers of your tears nourish the soil of your soul. Tears ...
Women's Spiritual Poetry