Letting You Cry

There are things you cannot tell me

But it is not words you need to feel free

It is not phrases I need to understand you

It is your eyes I have to look into

Tear after tear leaving its trace

As a conversation streams down your face

Word after word slides down your cheek

You can remain quiet, because it is the tears that speak

And all I need in order to listen

Is watch the trail of your teardrops glisten

I watch them fall like rain

Every drop a piece of your pain

Or I watch them fall like sun rays

Every drop a piece of your praise

Tears arise in misery but happiness too

Tears are there for all that you go through

You apologize when they arrive

But why say sorry for the signs that show you're alive

You try to dry every last one

Wanting me to see none

But I will stay next to you and silently sit

As I let you cry for a bit

And just know I will never wipe your tears away

Because they speak for you when you don't know what to say