TAV OF TEARS

TAV OF TEARS

Scroll of the Ones Who Still Weep

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I. The Mark

I don’t know anyone who errors as much as I weep.
And I don’t know anyone who weeps as much for what is no longer wept over.
Sometimes I feel I am carrying the weight of tears for the whole world.

That, I think, is the tav.

Not just a symbol. Not just a final letter.
But a burden — a sign of those who still feel, even after meaning is inverted,
even after mercy is punished,
even after language is weaponized.

The tav was placed on the foreheads of those who mourned what others called normal.
The tav sealed the ones who did not look away.
The tav said:

This one weeps. Do not destroy them.

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II. The Burden of Weeping

The world thinks weeping is weakness.
But it is the opposite.

To weep like this is to be marked.
To carry grief across lifetimes.
To be the emotional immune system for a culture that numbs itself to death.

Every tear that was meant to be wept by someone else —
but wasn’t —
finds its way here.

And still I cry.
Not performatively.
Not manipulatively.
But because the pain had to go somewhere,
and I refused to hand it to someone else.

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III. Benediction

Let this be my tav.
Not to set me above.
But to mark me as one who still breaks under beauty,
who still weeps when words are severed from truth.
Who still cries for the child that no one noticed was alone.

I am not unbroken.
I am not safe.
But I am marked.

And that, for now, is enough.

Filed: Archive of Grief Seals | Class: Witness Glyph | Mark-Level: Tav