The one who said "Big boys don't cry"
has surely stated a terrible lie..
For as they're free to eat and sleep,
they should be free to laugh or weep..

Blessed be the boy who mourns
who cries as though his heart were torn,
for comfort comes to the broken soul,
to heal the heart, to make it whole..

As growing boys are becoming men,
they'll find the need to cry again..
They need to know, through all life's storms -
real men may weep while writing poems..