Inner tears

Words of anger, left unsaid
Are like tears we shed inside
Words of anger, snarled out
Are like knives cutting into the hide
Of those we have given control
Over our thoughts and our deeds
These angry words imprison us
They become captors that we feed

It is better to shed a tear in love
Than cut another to the bone
With words that ring forever
Causing pain to each of us alone
Go ahead and cry the tears
In the shadows of our mind
And let them flow as words of kindness
Leaving only love behind