Sometimes I Cry

"a baby's gonna cry when there's a need. but a man won't cry even when his heart starts to bleed. he'll travel on a long and empty road, until he finds out; he can't do it alone" - Tony Terry

i'm a man. i was raised and socialized like many men to hide my emotions, "man up" so to speak. thusly, i didn't discover until i was well into adulthood how therapeutic a good cry is. now let's not get it twisted, i'm not scheduling a waterworks for every 3rd Monday of the month, but i am allowing myself to go ahead and get it in when the feeling hits me, like when i watch the movie John Q, or i have to sing a song 

whose message really resonates down deep, or i pull a grey hair out of my nose

which brings me to a few nights ago, and that bleeding heart that TonyTerry talked about in his 1994 song "When A Man Cries" took up residence in me, at 3am no less... what was going on? a better question might be what wasn't going on, but i digress. what i will offer is that is was one of my better tear times, and i'm enjoying the peace and clarity that it helped bring.

in other news; the next 2(two) Valentine's Days are on Saturday and Sunday respectively../. seed:planted