<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Butler Lantern]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://butlerlanternnewspaper.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[butlerlantern]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://butlerlanternnewspaper.wordpress.com/author/butlerlantern/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Tears]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Micah Streeter<br />
<em>Guest Writer</em></p>
<p>When I think of you<br />
I think of all the things I’ve been through<br />
And you<br />
What have you been through?</p>
<p>I didn’t when I loved you know<br />
What grief of yours makes your tears flow<br />
But now I begin to</p>
<p>For you<br />
In your voice I hear<br />
Your frailty, your voice ever soft<br />
Like snow on the water</p>
<p>Your eyes which struggle<br />
To cry<br />
But why?</p>
<p>Will I cry sometimes<br />
With the pain of<br />
All<br />
Pain is Pain<br />
So we say</p>
<p>So we say we’re frail<br />
People, men, women, girls, boys<br />
And who knows?</p>
<p>There is a power<br />
In words<br />
In tears<br />
In my feelings<br />
Of life<br />
Of love<br />
Of words<br />
Of you</p>
<p>You believe, don’t you?<br />
Won’t you</p>
<p>Hope and Regret<br />
Fear of life<br />
Finally, what do we have to fear</p>
<p>But our own free will<br />
Our ability<br />
To cry and not<br />
To die<br />
If I believe in death<br />
And life<br />
Then I believe too<br />
In you</p>
<p>We speak, not to each other<br />
With the emptiness filled<br />
With pain (hope and regret)</p>
<p>And yet, When our hearts are empty<br />
Our voices are full<br />
It’s only when tears fly<br />
That we are truthful</p>
<p>And I think love, like tears<br />
Is like energy<br />
It can never be lost, nor destroyed<br />
But recreated, reformed<br />
Redeemed</p>
<p>Our tears, of life<br />
I cry for you<br />
And you and you and you<br />
And you</p>
<p>What breath is taken when we die<br />
Which air is used to cry?</p>
<p>‘Tis the same passed through<br />
All of time<br />
Breathed by George and you<br />
And Christ</p>
<p>The same air touched the tears he<br />
Cried<br />
Our tears are always new<br />
Always for you</p>
<p>They come with us into death<br />
While staying in the Earth<br />
Becoming someone else’s tears<br />
Someone else’s years</p>
<p>The same tears cried by him<br />
Were yours<br />
And mine<br />
And when we cry we are divine</p>
<p>I call you mine and you do too<br />
Each tear brings us a<br />
Faith renewed</p>
<p>In man and in all<br />
In grace and in you</p>
<p>Then as our frail voices die<br />
And love at last<br />
Begins to cry</p>
<p>It happens then, you and I learn<br />
A beauty of love’s heart<br />
Reborn</p>
<p>We empathize<br />
Polarizing dreams<br />
And our tears<br />
Are real</p>
<p>Such is our pain<br />
Is me<br />
Is you<br />
Is why<br />
We have to cry</p>
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