If I Cry

If I cry

It won’t be loud

It will be the kind of weather

Only one person notices

A shift in the air

A small surrender of light

If I cry

It will be because something inside me

Finally stopped pretending

It was stone

Even mountains erode

When no one is watching

If I cry

Don’t mistake it for breaking

It’s just the truth

Warming its hands

Against the cold I’ve carried

Too long

If I cry

Let it be a quiet permission

A door opening inward

A soft place returning

A moment where I remember

I am still here

And still capable

Of feeling everything