They sit with masked-up faces,
serious eyes,
empty stares lost in stained glass silence.
But not me.
Tears fall,
not out of weakness,
but because every drop is a memory
whispering,
“Let go. I’m fine.”
I don’t ask for forgiveness.
This isn’t about God.
This is about you —
the one I loved,
the one I remember
without holy scripts or hollow songs.
The church echoes with nothing.
But my chest?
A flood.
And every tear says:
“Thank you for seeing me.
Thank you for coming real.
Now breathe. Now live.
I’m already gone —
but never lost.”
So I stand,
outside the ritual,
inside the fire,
river-eyed and full of goodbye.
Sometimes grief isn’t silent.
Sometimes it flows loud and holy — not in prayers, but in tears.
This poem is for everyone who felt too much while others stood still.
No masks. No pretending.
Just love, memory, and the fire of letting go.
— Vazago