TEARS. an encoure — Summary

There once was a girl, She cried all the time, She cried all night, Falling asleep with tears in her eyes, She'd cry all morning once she got up, She cried so much her tear ducts dried up...

Although they were dry somehow she still seemed to cry Because... She was nothing but broken inside.

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Nikky's poem tells the story of a girl who cries constantly: at night, in the morning, until she falls asleep with tears still in her eyes. The simple, repeated "she cried" gives the lines a heavy, relentless rhythm, as if the sadness never has a break. Then the poem exaggerates in a striking way. She cries so much that her tear ducts dry up.

The turn comes in the second stanza. You might expect the crying to stop once the tears are gone, but the speaker says she "somehow" still seems to cry. The pause on "Because..." slows everything down before the final line, which gives the reason: she is "nothing but broken inside." The point is that the tears were never the real problem. They were only the visible sign of a deeper hurt.

The mood is quiet, bleak and tender. The poem uses plain language and no decoration, which makes the girl's pain feel honest and hard to dismiss. It leaves the reader with sympathy rather than any solution.

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