When I have been angry at my children,
they have been quiet.
I have felt them talking to me without speaking.
They appeared to be screaming without raising their voice.
Being well-behaved and well-groomed children they are.
What was the result?
I would end up crying without weeping.
Now that they are gone
And I remember all that,
I am weeping.
When I am without my children, I cry.
Is crying only women’s prerogative?
If there be equality between sexes,
why can men not cry?
Have heard and felt too.
At times, when I am very happy,
tears roll down my cheeks.
But when I am sad, less or more,
I have never felt like laughing.
Nobody can make me smile.
After all, wise men have said :
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone.
Weeping is contagious too!!
I wonder if other animals ever weep.
But then, other animals may not have any issues about:
“What is” is not “what it ought to be”.
