When We Are Weeping

"Weeping is not the same thing as crying.  It takes

your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you

feel like you don't have any bones left to hold you up."

Sarah Ockler

Extremes are present in our lives such as the distinction between crying and weeping.  Down the emotional slide our cries are wrapped in the knowledge the end will come.    When we are weeping, we do not know if sorrow will ever end.

When we cry, we shed tears of joy, pain or overwhelm; but the moment passes.  We dry our face and return to our routine.  Weeping is a deeper experience, creating emotional chaos, lack of focus and physical exhaustion.  There is no returning to routine as the day will never again be the same.

As we weep, we do not see the setting of the sun nor the rise of the moon.  Days fade into nights and time has lost all meaning.  We have been weakened down to our bones and our perforated heart drips our  life force away.