Big Boys Cry
The one who says "Big boys don't cry"
is only repeating a long-term lie..
For as they're free to eat and sleep,
they should be free to laugh or weep..
Blessed be the boy who mourns
who cries as though his heart were torn,
for comfort comes to the broken soul,
to heal the heart, to make it whole..
As growing boys are becoming men,
they’ll have occasion to cry again..
They should learn, through all life's storms -
real men oft’ weep while writing poems..
The one who says "Big boys don't cry"
is only repeating a long-term lie..
For as they're free to eat and sleep,
they should be free to laugh or weep..
Blessed be the boy who mourns
who cries as though his heart were torn,
for comfort comes to the broken soul,
to heal the heart, to make it whole..
As growing boys are becoming men,
they’ll have occasion to cry again..
They should learn, through all life's storms -
real men oft’ weep while writing poems..