There wasn’t a dry eye in the room during the latest Golden Buzzer moment on “America’s Got Talent.”

Brandon Leake, 27, a community college counselor in Stockton, California, wowed the judges with an emotional performance of a poem that paid tribute to his late sister, who died as a baby. He also made history as the first spoken word artist to appear on the show.

Before Leake began, Simon Cowell admitted he was skeptical, saying, “I don’t really understand poetry, I’m going to be honest with you.”

But Cowell and his fellow judges, Howie Mandel and Sofia Vergara, were soon blown away by Leake’s raw, moving performance. (The fourth judge, Heidi Klum, was out sick.)

“She left Earth to go back home amongst the stars right next to God, but I was left here to manufacture wings out of tears and broken dreams,” Leake said in his poem, at times fighting back tears. “If this pain and these memories are all that I got left of you, I won’t never regret these scars from just trying to hold onto you.”

The poem hit especially close to home for Vergara.

“My brother passed away the same year that your sister passed away,” she told Leake. “I can feel your pain, I know what this is, I know what it is to have somebody taken from you without you knowing.”

Cowell was also moved, calling the poem “an amazing tribute” to his sister.

“There’s something very, very special about you,” he said. “This is a very difficult thing for me to judge. I shouldn’t be judging it. I just want to compliment you on what you just did, because it was extraordinary.”