I have been so sad that I just can’t cry,

Or so angry but I can not figure out why.
I have felt so much joy that tears fall from my eyes,
Or frustration so intense I allow a part of myself die.
I have  felt them all at once like my mind is a blender?
Maybe I’d be forced to wave the white flag and surrender?
Perhaps if I wrote each emotion a sincere letter,
Afterwards it might make me feel any better?

Dear Sadness,

I hope you won’t stay forever even though you’ve helped me appreciate the light,
I can’t spend so many days under the still darkness of night,
It can be so overwhelming when you take over because I feel I can not fight,
Though I understand why you think what you’re doing is right.

Dear Anger,

I really hope you don’t turn into an undying rage,
Because if you trap me there I’ll be living in a cage,
My mind will get so exhausted that I might start to age,
And I’d be sad if I couldn’t write words to fill another page.

Dear Joy,

I must thank you for letting me see the world in all its glory,
Because you have allowed me another day to write my story,
Even though my mind might occupy this space so wrongly,
So I must thank you dearly for feeling joy so strongly.

Dear Frustration,

Ah the last on the list, we have a relationship with a little twist,
When I am overwhelmed I feel you so potently I wish I didn’t exist,
Regardless of what the feeling of Joy might have wanted to insist.
You’re the emotion that I go to when I have felt each one thoroughly and I can not resist.
When right now I don’t possess the power to desist,
Even if Joy keeps telling me to never give up and to always persist.
Frustration, to me you are the most complex and draining of them all,
As if when I’m done with you I can barely walk let alone crawl.
When I’m with you I can’t separate you from the others,
Because when you blend them together they all get smothered,
Yet I’d like to feel them each by themselves not all together,
So if you could help me out by hearing the words I’ve written in this letter.