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Silent Tears

Charles Randolph
A woman with long hair covers her face as tears silently stream down from between her fingers. In the background, shadowed figures represent isolation and emotional distance. Artwork from "Silent Tears" by Charles Loren Randolph, evoking themes of grief, silence, and healing.

Silent Tears

Emotions filling me

Trapped and feared

These are the silent tears

They are making me

They are breaking me

These are the silent tears

People hiding from the truth, afraid to face themselves, they run from them, they hide from them, they forget them.

These are the silent tears

I shed them, all of them, let them lay and walk away, no longer wet with shame, these are the silent tears no more.

Charles Randolph

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Charles Randolph’s poetry in Silent Tears gives voice to unspoken emotions—revealing how facing pain can become the first step toward liberation and healing.
A powerful visual companion to Charles Randolph’s poetry in Silent Tears—this image explores the emotional weight of unspoken pain and the healing act of expression.

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