Run Dry

Happiness

is a steady flow

coursing through my veins

keeping a supply of smiles

spread across my face

 

Anger 

is a motionless pond

rippling when someone

disrupts my temper

 

Jealousy

is a fast moving stream 

sweeping me away before I know it's there

 

Disappointment

is a wave of salt water

the dreadful tasting liquid crashing over me

and ripping me under into it's

unforgiving embrace

 

Fear

is scalding hot

only harmful when it boils over the edges

 

Trust

is pure and distilled

once tainted, it will never be the same

 

Feelings 

are an ocean

I used to drown in the suffocating substance

always longing to be set free from my life long swim

now that my wish has come true

and my ocean has dried up

I am numb from dehydration 

 

It is far better to be breathless and drowning

than to be constantly yearning for a single drop of emotion