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Chapter 106 - The Resilience of A Tear

Sitting on the brink of it's world

Before being evicted all at once

Slave to gravity, unable to stop

Growing slower as it dissipates

Eaten alive by the skin underneath

Others flow faster

Following the trails blazed

Glistening as they too

Travel across the dips and raises

A steady stream

A silent scream

Carving itself down a cheek

Around a nose and finally

Over the chin it goes

Tears dripping down

Free falling to unknown doom

Whilst others lead a different path

Leaving an itchy tickle along the neck

Staining the fabric a darker grey

Further progress dependent on

A million more tears to shed

When your shirts' neckline

Is completely saturated

The skin underneath

Perpetually damp and clammy

Only then does anyone ever realize

The resilience if a Tear

Paves the way for change to happen

Slowly but surely