Matty Tamen’s Dry Tears is a collection of profound, soul searching poems. These are poems about fear, hate, doubt and hurt. But also about courage, love and endurance. They highlight the absurdity of human nature. Dry Tears is poetry about life. Are the poet’s tears dry because he has cried too much, for too long? Have trials so exhausted him that he has no more tears left? Maybe his tears are invisible and make no difference. They could just be the tears that we all spill and yet go unnoticed.

In Dry Tears, Matty Tamen successfully uses the subtle brush of imagery to paint the contours of pain and journeys with the reader:

Into an endless pit

Of eternal night

Yet, through all tribulations, the poet holds a stubborn optimism and resilience:

the crown

in my heart

which none

can

see

Hails me king