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Healing Tears

Literary Issue: Poem by Elise Williams

Nov 29, 2022
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“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?”


Elise A. M. Williams is an aspiring writer currently studying for her BA in English with a Latin concentration at the University of Dallas.
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