What do you do when someone starts crying in your presence?
Maybe it's best to not do anything, but just be there, like in this poem that really resonates with me:



If I should suddenly well up and over,
Let me cry.

I have century's tears deep-frozen
Your voice, warm - touching my name -
Could salt the frozen clouds to burst.

I've felt the melting
When your voice calling
Gathers me to something meaningful.

In this world of senseless transiency,
If you should say my name
And I should cry
Do not question why.

Let me cry:
It won't be you who makes me cry,
But you who lets me.


(If you know who wrote this, please let me know.)