Why do I cry
Why is it so easy to cry for someone else, when my own pain runs so deep.
Why does someone else's sorrow, make it so hard for me to sleep.
Why do my eyes fill with tears, when I hear of someone else's pain.
Why do I pray for someone else, when my own prayers seem in vain.
Why feel sorrow for those who have only brought me woe.
No more why but why not, for the Lord's word told me so.
mdpoetgirl commented on Why do I cry
05-31-2009
Artie commented on Why do I cry
05-23-2009
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.
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