Tears - Visitor's Poem

by Loretta Cunningham
(Monessen, PA, USA)

Why do we cry tears, from hurt, pain or no gain?
Is it because we are not happy or is for joy?
Is it for someone we love that went to heaven above?
Is for a birth of a child or death of a loved one?
Is it for the beauty we see or that sweet apple tree?
Is it for the love that we seek?
Is it for the strong or the weak or even the people that we meet?
Tears are for the cleansing of our souls to relieve
the pain, the gain that we seek.
It helps us to become meek, and humble.
You know JESUS wept for the friend who had died.
He also felt others' pain for the person they had lost.
Tears are a good thing he helps us to call on GOD.