The Irony Of Tears Poem by John Sensele

Tears of joy bless folks
As they express happiness
To the chimes of talking clocks
Which suppress sadness and weakness.

Tears that express hypocrisy
Steal joy from communities
Where folks deride a pesky policy
That belittles deaths below mid forties.

Tears enable humankind's burdens
To diminish in the wake of trauma
Endured at the hands of merciless maidens
For whom disappointment holds no daily drama.

Tears on the face of widows and orphans
Mirror the loss families suffer
When unscrupulous medics dubiously harvest organs
Which service lives of tycoons who tender the highest price offer.