Prominent Emotions

Prominent Emotions



Sometimes its so hard to find the words to write

it seems my heart and soul darken my sight,

but I know these words will bring my darkness to light.

You know I have the words to let go

so stand back while I let this heart wrenching anger flow.



I am so sick of people thinking they know how I feel

why disrespect the feelings I find to be soulfully real.

Like a therapist for example who thinks they know whats in my mind,

when all I can say that whats in mine they cannot begin to unwind.



Only I can unravel these superior thoughts,

that for so long now have been sought,

and not only for you, but also me to this paper I have brought.

Now that I have let some of my rage out on this page

I am giving way to a new feeling that like a bird will fly from its cage.



The feeling now that shall fly most of the time tears at my heart, deep in my chest

kind of like bullets attempting to pierce a Kevlar vest,

for now look out while this feeling explodes like the rest.



For years now I have been depressed

and for so long somewhere inside I have kept this feeling suppressed.

Why I don't know, for they have steadily progressed.



Sadness is a feeling we all know to well,

it is today I wish I could take this feeling and put it up for sale.

I know this is a feeling they won't buy

for it will keep them awake at night trying not to cry,

and always asking themselves the stupid question of not how, but why

it has to be them no matter how hard they try.



Now that I have let these two feelings pour like rain from my clouded brain,

its time for a new feeling to rise that will help me maintain.

The feeling of happiness is the one I love the most

although sometimes this feeling acts as a ghost.

an apparition that is often hard to see

Sometimes its there and sometimes it cease to be.



Happiness can raise you from the earth's face,

and put you in a far better place,

where you can experience God's wonderful grace.

In that place it is not a crime to express happiness in a rhyme

so it is in this place I should spend a little more time.



These are the prominent three feelings that mix to create another six.

these other six we will come to know,

but for now I will end this so my happy place I can go.





Kevin C. Slocumb