Tears I Have Shed

Even though cast away, each tear leaves behind its own healing trail smoothing the way to the next level of self-awareness and wisdom, evidence of its role in spiritual alchemy. I wish it didn't have to be so devastating, wish the smelter's fire did not blind so thoroughly, suffocate so alarmingly, even in its brevity. And yet I know that it is exactly and only the incineration of all that has gone before that makes rebirth possible, the intense heat forcing the slumbering seed to rupture, releasing its long held promise of love in a singular and powerful burst of faith and surrender.