Where does that sadness go?

When you’re desperate to cry
But you don’t
For whatever reason, you can’t
Where does that sadness go?

Does it nuzzle into your belly?
Or slip into your mitochondria
to dissipate?
Or pool in the centremost part of your bones?

Where does the water that would have been tears go?
Is it sucked up to heaven by the clouds?
Or does it slink out of the bottoms of your feet
to find a home in the deep ground?
Or does it rest on the breath?
On each exhale that shows you what it means to connect
with something outside of yourself?