Why women cry:

[caty]

Why Women Cry


A little boy asked his mother, "Why are you crying?"
"Because I'm a woman," she told him.
"I don't understand," he said.
His Mom just hugged him and said, "And you never will."

Later the little boy asked his father,
"Why does mother seem to cry for no reason?"
"All women cry for no reason," was all his dad could say.

The little boy grew up and became a man,
still wondering why women cry.

Finally he put in a call to God.
When God answered, he asked,
"God, why do women cry so easily?"

God said:
"When I made the woman she had to be special.
I made her shoulders strong enough
to carry the weight of the world,
yet gentle enough to give comfort.

I gave her an inner strength
to endure childbirth
and the rejection
that many times comes from her children.
I gave her a hardness
that allows her to keep going
when everyone else gives up,
and take care of her family
through sickness and fatigue without complaining.

I gave her the sensitivity to love her children
under any and all circumstances,
even when her child has hurt her very badly.
I gave her strength to carry her husband through his faults
and fashioned her from his rib to protect his heart.


I gave her wisdom to know
that a good husband never hurts his wife,
but sometimes tests her strengths.

And finally, I gave her a tear to shed.
This is hers exclusively to use whenever it is needed."


"You see my son," said God,
"the beauty of a woman is not
in the clothes she wears,
the figure that she carries,
or the way she combs her hair.

The beauty of a woman must be seen in her eyes,
because that is the doorway to her heart
- the place where love resides."


My sister-in-law e-mailed this to me and I thought I would pass it on.

[jobycom]

1. Then why do I cry at "Because of Winn Dixie?"

[Shell Beau]

2. I think that is beautiful. Although I am not

a big crier, I'm sure all that will change after I have children.

[Rising Phoenix]

3. I think that is beautiful too...and I am a big crier

[edbermac]

4. At the risk of getting flamed, I think this poem is bullshit...

Huh? Boys and men don't feel anything? They don't ever cry? Sounds pretty sexist to me.

[Shell Beau]

6. With all due respect, women

do TEND to be more emotional (not all women and not all of the time), but I believe estrogen and hormones account for it.

[Divameow77]

7. I don't think the poem said

men or boys never cry, this poem just happens to be about women.

[caty]

8. Of course men feel

and cry. Why don't you write a poem about why men cry? Equal time and all that. Just sayin....

[edbermac]

9. I'm an accountant, not a poet...

;)

[CitrusLib]

10. My husband cried when our son was born.

Of course I had him in a half nelson during a full contraction at the time.

[Shell Beau]

11. ha ha!

[Blue-Jay]

5. Sometimes it's hard to be a woman...

[khashka]

12. This one always gets to me

Muhammed, my friend
It's time to tell the world
We both know it was a girl
Back in Bethlehem

And on that fateful day when she was crucified...


(Not mine alas, but I take it to mean women often suffer for men's sins....)

Khash.

[u4ic]

13. "fashioned her from his rib to protect his heart"

That and the "work till you drop and deal with your husband without complaining" sounds very creepy to me.

I know that wasn't your intent. :hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. Hi caty.....

This is quite beautiful...I really can identify with much in it...

Thank you for posting it...

:hug: :loveya: