Tears surprise me

Tears surprise me sometimes

Falling down like rain

Or rising up like precipitation

With no explanation

And yet when they do

My heart expands

There is a deep sea of feeling

I sense even as you play the blues

I hear both the longing and the sorrow

For loves that never came to much

But there is confusion there too

And perhaps too much expectation

That the healing of your original wound

Could come through the ignorance of someone

Who could not understand

So it is

We must withstand our own breaking open

Our own heart break

Welcoming it instead of reviling it

Or rejecting it as meaningless

So that in this way it can become

A doorway into a vast and heavenly room

In which we finally come to meet

And see face to face

Our deepest truest self