Healing Tears
Literary Issue: Poem by Elise Williams
“Healing Tears”
[Genesis 44-45]
What brings this rain?
It hurts. It’s full
of pain, yet it
seems to fill a hole.
You said I was
dead. I’ve felt dead.
My old life closed,
like a book unread.
Isolated,
for twenty years,
my burden of
broken trust and fears.
Is my snow-capped
heart meant to melt
in the rain? I
forgot how this felt.
If the snow melts,
will snow-drops come?
Break and fill holes
of earth, compressed, numb?
Is rain a chance
to be made whole
again? Does God
use rain to heal souls?
Can you love me?
Can I forgive?
“I am Joseph;
Does my father live?”