I Shed a Tear for You, by Anisha J. King
I shed a tear for you because I loved you.
I shed a tear for you because I had to love me more. Those were tears of sadness, raindrops that needed to fall.
I shed a tear for me, because I was moving on. I was doing what was best for me, doing what the future me would be grateful for.
I shed a tear for the me I has become, I shed a tear for the me who had gone away. As I shed more tears for you, as I seemingly shed un-removable traces of you, a blessing came about. I had less to shed about.
The drops of tears began to disappear, but then the unfamiliar lines began to surface. What were these lines, so strange and foreign to my body?
The lines formed deeper and deeper, began to twist, turn and curve. Yet still, the tears fell less and less. Afraid of the new development, I looked in the mirror to face what had become. It was then that I realized, the lines that had formed were, they were... smiles. Peace had etched itself all over my face.
I had shed away the pain, and happy curves had come to stay.