Tears Poem by Dorota Szumilas

'Tears fall quietly, it's better to cry than to be angry;
anger hurts other people but tears flow silently through
your soul and cleanse it as well as your heart and your hands'
(Cardinal S. Wyszynski)

tears fall quietly...
as a murmur of
a creek flowing
silently
you can hardly hear it
only
once in a while
a stone
hits another stone
it's a louder
wail of the heart
tears fall quietly...
they are too weak
they disappear
too quickly
on your cheeks
the silent tears...
tears of suffering
whisper
constantly
to the accompaniment
of trees blowing in the wind
in silence
quietly
the tears
fall...

(transl. by Urszula Sledziewska)