Can't you see I'm Crying?
Not the liquid kind of tears
But on the inside.
More powerful
painful-
Than expression allows.
I am trying
Against all I was taught
From my first day as a man
"Do not cry"
A scraped knee.
"Do not cry"
What if they laugh at me?
"Do not cry"
I learned so well
I taught my physiological shell
"Do not cry"
And now I sit
Struggling against myself
Aching to spill
This one tiny drop of pain
Before it shatters my soul.
And yet you-
Prodding fool
Foolishly ****
Can't you see I'm Crying?