Don’t Let It Make You Cry

Don’t let it make you cry

Not the memory

Not the echo of a name

That still knows how to find you

In the dark

Don’t let it make you cry

When the past leans in

Like it still owns a key

To the house you’ve rebuilt

From quieter things

Don’t let it make you cry

Just because the truth

Arrives uninvited

Soft footed

Cold handed

Carrying the shape

Of what you once wanted

Let it pass through you

Like weather

Like a storm that knows

You’re no longer the place

It can break

Stand there

Breathe once

Let the world keep moving

And if your eyes burn anyway

If the ache insists

Let the tears fall

Only as proof

That you’re still here

Still changing

Still stronger

Than whatever tried

To unmake you