You cry at night when your blanket isn’t long enough to cover your shivering body, and when the window doesn’t shut.
Mom cries when she misses her mom, and reflects on the life that was forever ago.
Dad cries when he loses his glasses, and never understood why his dad couldn’t love him.
Your sister cries when she realizes being a mom is harder than hating hers.
Your brother cries when he doesn’t know why he can’t talk to you.
Your teacher cries when they go home at night, to tv dinners and a dog who sleeps too much.
The boy in math class cries when he fails, because he knows that pretending everything will be okay doesn’t help.
The girl who picked on you cries when she looks in the mirror, and rips her hair out.
The man in the same aisle as you has cried before,
and the woman half asleep next to you on the freeway is crying now.
Everybody cries.