I feel the droplet manifesting in the corner of my eye, rolling down my cheek to nestle on my lip. it quivers there for a moment, and falls to the earth below.

I think about what has triggered that tear, and what has gone into making it possible. The events, thinking, feelings, and emotions that construct it. There is a whole world in that tear, it has a life encapsulated in it.

It has been growing in me for years, Why should I feel embarrassed by it. I don’t today. I welcome it. I feel my soul lightening as it falls through the air, as if it has washed my soul a little. It holds in it the pain, suffering, and anguish of myself, and others.

I cry for me, I cry for you, and the earth that my tear lands on has an opportunity to grow also.

Tears are salty. I don’t know if I have an imbalance of salt in my life, but I sure know that I can use the sweetness of the light in my life today