GREAT READS → LIFETAKES Issue 869 · July 14, 2021

Why We Cry

You are there when I’m asked how many children I have, and I hesitate before I answer

Why We Cry

 

Where did you go, my beloved child?

She weeps in the night, her cheek wet with tears. There is no one to comfort her.

At night when all is dim, the city fast asleep, I look out my window.

I feel it. I feel the emptiness like a glass shattering. The heaviest emptiness I have ever felt. A void so tangible that I feel my heart pounding, fingers trembling as those tears come. I will cry out the emptiness until I am whole again.

Jerusalem cries out. My child, where did you go?

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