Why Women Cry

Women will totally get this. It doesn’t matter if the poem speaks at times to faith or religion, or a traditional relationship.We can change that. What struck me is the sentiment. Often times a word or an emotion can bring tears to my eyes. As women we rise to the challenge no matter the toll it takes on us. We are passionate about our friends and family. When they hurt we hurt. When they feel joy we experience that same joy.

That isn’t to say that men do not feel love or emotions nor does it seek to say that we are better because of how we express these sentiments.

Men love just as fiercely.

What I felt in reading this poem is an understanding that women’s tears can be our strength and heart. It doesn’t matter whether you are friend, sister, lover or mother.That last sentence is really what moved me.

Now a little comedic disclaimer for our neck of the woods:

When you read that a good ‘husband’ never hurts his wife……(Interject partner….FF, MF, FM, MM etc….)

Here we know that doesn’t include a spanking! Just a small political statement. Ahem.....

"Why Women Cry"

Why Women Cry

A little boy asked his mother, "Why are you crying?" "Because I'm a woman," she told him.

"I don't understand," he said. His Mom just hugged him and said, "And you never will."

Later the little boy asked his father, "Why does mother seem to cry for no reason?"

"All women cry for no reason," was all his dad could say.

The little boy grew up and became a man, still wondering why women cry.

Finally he put in a call to God. When God got on the phone, he asked, "God, why do women cry so easily?"

God said, "When I made the woman she had to be special.

I made her shoulders strong enough to carry the weight of the world,

Yet gentle enough to give comfort.

I gave her an inner strength to endure childbirth and the rejection that many times comes from her children.

I gave her a hardness that allows her to keep going when everyone else gives up, and take care of her family through sickness and fatigue without complaining.

I gave her the sensitivity to love her children under any and all circumstances, even when her child has hurt her very badly.

I gave her strength to carry her husband through his faults and fashioned her from his rib to protect his heart.

I gave her wisdom to know that a good husband never hurts his wife, but sometimes tests her strengths and her resolve to stand beside him unfalteringly.

And finally, I gave her a tear to shed. This is hers exclusively to use whenever it is needed."

"You see my son," said God, "the beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair.

The beauty of a woman must be seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart - the place where love resides."

Author: Unknown

I sent this to Sunny and she encouraged me to share!

Thanks dear!

Thanks for reading,

Minelle