晨读 第1119天 2024年2月11日

sorrow, and joy, all intertwined

tears just below my surface

By Henry H. Walker

my tears are always at the ready,

for life itself has much of tragedy within it,

sorrow should always call to all of us,


I am such an optimist, though,

that the joy behind the sorrow

also shouts at me,

while the tears, too, whisper their truths.