PAD Challenge Day 19: Emotional Rollercoaster

PAD Challenge Day 19: Write an emotion poem.

Emotional Rollercoaster 

I woke up blushing yellow 

Spirit radiant as the sun

Expecting no clouds 

to shelter my head or heart

No melancholy tears to 

run marathons on my face 

By noon I ran into black

deep dark blues 

The kind of blues that 

automatically refresh

your own deep blues

Student A tells me 

that her sister was 

diagnosed with an 

aggressive form of cancer

Her mother passed 

from lung cancer

Before her sister 

starts treatment

her sister tells her

"this should be the end of me"...

Student B reveals 

that her aunt passed 

unexpectedly from 

the complications

of breast cancer last week...

I tell them both,

grief knows me too well

I ache from a series 

of familiar losses and

Cancer was no friend 

to me either

I lived with it

I lost a part of me

I fought back

I won 

here I am

with you 

for a reason

Clouds floated

over our heads and hearts

Rain ran a marathon over our faces

We passed hugs down like batons

Pain is the hurdle we all 

Hope to jump over and win big

I tell them

Out of the blue

With courage and rekindled joy

Don't let these blues 

Overly saturate...

Drown the very life out of you  

Swim...walk...run...through

keep your head above 

these trouble waters

You have to search your way 

out of the bad blues 

for the peaceful cool blues 

Let your love one's eternal life 

inspire you to live

be yellow before 

your own colors of 

life fade to black...

💜D'ElegantOne