On A Tear

A brief, luminous meditation on the emotional landscape of tears. Rogers transforms what might seem mere sorrow into something closer to revelation, exploring how a woman's tears become a language beyond words, a conduit for truths the speaker can only glimpse. The verse moves with careful attention to the way grief, tenderness, and unspoken feeling interweave, positioning tears not as weakness but as a kind of sacred discharge. Written in Rogers' characteristic polished style, the poem invites readers to sit with the weight of emotion rather than flee from it, finding in that stillness something unexpectedly beautiful. It endures because it honors a subject many avoid: the raw, ungovernable territory of feeling, rendered here with precision and genuine wonder.