Big Boys Don’t Cry

Posted by Brad Osborne on November 9, 2020 · 18 Comments 

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What is this?

The small salted bead

Clings to my lash

Somehow being freed

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It must be allergies

Or maybe a sty

For this tough old goat

Just does not cry

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If untouched is the heart

Harboring nothing to fear

Then what is the need

For shedding a tear?

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Pain cannot pull

And neither despair

Tears from a fool

Who learned not to care

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Yet there on my face

It leaves tell-tale streak

And sadness is a trace

That runs down my cheek

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I am stymied by

The so unexpected

In the tears I cry

The real me reflected

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