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Tears


Tears represent many things: LOVE, HATE, SADNESS, and HAPPINESS. Though my tears represent the love of someone close who has passed. My eyes are red and puffy, the tears have dried up on my face and I can't see to well through the water that fills my eyes. More and more water builds up in my eyes and no matter how I try to hold them back there's just no stopping it. I just can't stop them from pouring down my face. My eyes begin to overflow and shortly after my cheeks and shirt are stained with dried tears. But my tears can also be for someone else who has been lost and even though I try to help them find a path, I failed in doing so. They know which way to go but they don’t know how to start in the right direction. You try to teach them and they are willing to learn but there is something in their heart that they are afraid of that is stopping them from learning, and before you can teach them how to start off on their way they have to conquer their fear so that it won’t stand in the way of them learning. But tears can also represent finding someone who is close to your heart that makes you smile, laugh, and be happy. Though you ask yourself why do my tears continue to fall? They keep falling because you’re scared. Scared of losing them because you never want to lose someone close to you again. So you push everyone away so that no one can ever get close to you again. so that you never have to be hurt again like you have been hurt in the past you don’t want to shed as many tears as you have shed before because it just hurts way too much. You hate suffering the pain of loss over and over again so you find the only way to stop the pain. By pushing everyone away and detaching yourself from any bonds with the ones you have around you. You chose the only path you could choose to stop the tears. Yet, you continue to shed the tears because now you have no one…

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