BOTTLE OF MY TEARS

I want to see the bottle Lord

You fill with all my tears

See how much you collected

Down through all the years

I am sure it’s very large

This bottle that you’ve got

For all the days I’ve lived

I seemed to have cried a lot

Have cried in fear and pain

In childhood long ago

Cried with all the memories

That still haunt and hurt me so

I have cried a lot

For myself and others too

All my tears ever shed

Are collected up by you

Have cried for love that’s lost

Cried with a broken heart

Cried with bitter sorrow

When death bids life depart

Keep the cork off its neck

For it is as my heart fears

That I am crying again

Filling the bottle of my tears

Colin Moffett