Darnell Mardis' 'Tears'

Thanks for sharing this Darnell!

Tears don't always cleanse the soul
sometimes they just need someone to hold
that's there to share a moment in time
as life goes forward because it can't rewind.

Like stained glass in a church that's so refined
sometimes they glow and sometimes they just shine
with shapes of wonder that will blow your mind
no two tears are alike history does find

just know that your tears are one of a kind
and that your soul is where their shapes are defined
this precious dew that comes from me and you
also instantly makes heavens angels cry too

how can this be tears that we don't see
seemingly sometimes lands on you and me
because the sky releases more than rain
when we cry heavens angels also feel our pain

so remember that the next time it pours right out of the blue
that angels cry too and their tears end up on you
if i would have known just how precious my tears were
i would have caught them all and none would have hit the earth

and I'd ship them right off to heaven each night when I pray
so that God could use them to water his garden each and every day
I believe that tears were here even before man
because the earth cried out knowing what it would have to withstand

so the oceans and lakes and streams that we see
all came from tears before the start of history
so God surely must have known the depth of pain that's down here
because before there was man there still were
tears