Pretty when you cry

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Most tears I shed in the dark

My Spotify playlists filled with sad music

My sheets are filled with tears

Tears of pain

Pain that consumes me so deep

Deeper than the deepest of oceans

I lay in my bed

The thoughts dancing in my head

The tears spilling down my face

A stranger once caught them

And turned them into a song

Claiming my tears make pretty

She wiped the shame of crying right off my face

Calling my tears pretty

My tears I called ugly

While society turned them into you want attention

Now I seek to call my tears beautiful

I am pretty when I cry

Dania Punjani

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