I have a lifetime of tears that are trapped like an ocean, deep within the inside of me,

The pain and the fears, and a lingering notion that one day they’ll all be set free.

But for now, as new tears are gathered and added deep behind an impenetrable wall,

The pressure increases as the stability decreases, awaiting the eventual fall.

I am stuck in a land where no man can stand the pain that is inside of me.

I am waiting to crumble or eventually stumble where darkness is all I can see.

Please God, may you enter, removing the winter that’s frozen like ice on my heart,

So the tears can start flowing, and I can start growing, where a new life’s beginning to start