the tears keep springing to my eyes

like a soft rain they are all of a sudden there

noticed I search my soul

through my head and heart throat and gut but

nothing says this is why this is reason

so I can take it in hand and remold it to something comfortable

light

the yoga instructor said empaths feel the world

is it that I don’t think so really that is too grandious and besides

I am not so sure there is empath in me after so many dissolutions and dismemberments strewn

across the pathways behind me sure this is life but at what point is the story my own to untangle

and where some divinity some source deep within yet outside myself the arbiter of the necessary

lift from this spring of tears flooding rains across my chest