Love note to a tear

You are beautiful when you cry.

That deep flush of vermillion spreading and colouring your face.
Tears quivering and threatening to fall over the slopes of your cheeks.
Your button nose, bulbous now.
That look of total helplessness, reduced to the emotions of a child.
You cry in self defense for fear that by holding it in, the dam will burst someday.
Your cries are silent, stifled... but your heart is loud - like an iceberg cracking.

There is a light in you, when the ordeal is over,
Peace dawning on your face, as the clouds shift over the earth.
I can see you drawing your armour, that invisible shield all around you.
In your eyes I see not weakness, but strength.
I love you