someone seriously hurt you again

Is it still OK to privately cry?

With gasping breaths, snotty nose

Tear swollen bloodshot eyes?

Or just suck it up and learn to be

Harder and meaner than your enemy?

Then take delight in another’s “but why?”

Because you can make a grown man cry.

My best to you and yours, Lew

PS: Just asking, because, you know, I might know somebody. 😉