Poetry

Emotional Spectrum

written by: OurSacredHonor

Anxiety, the color of white
When those fears that you can't fight
Come out late at night
Like an intense, bright light
It overwhelms your senses
It is so immense
And you're so tense
Like you're trapped by a chain link fence
Lined with barbed wire
And though you try to climb higher
With bloody hands you aspire
But you find that you can't because the fence is on fire

Numbness, the color of black
You can't move and you can't fight back
Trapped in a shell that nobody can crack
Devoid of all emotions, feeling is what you lack
When they steal
Your means to feel
You must conceal what's real
And start to seal
Off the outside
Your crushed by the high tide
No one in whom you can confide
So you're forced to suffer with the emptiness inside

Black
What is it you lack?
White
Are you ever gonna feel all right?

Anger, the color of red
Scarlet passion and obsession in your head
The ground is unstable so watch where you tread
Because if you let this take control of you, you may end up dead
Hatred and fury and pent up rage
All this built up, kept inside your little cage
Before you know this emotion hits the critical stage
Target found, sights are locked, time to engage
They rubbed your face in dirt
A violent outburst
Quenching your blood thirsts
Better stay out of your way or somebody'll get hurt

Sadness, the color of blue
Beware of what this emotion can do to you
You don't want to have to struggle just to get through
Each and every day of you life because the tears knife will cut through
It cuts deep to the core
You'll feel sorrow and sore
Always asking for more
This depression doesn't seem to have a cure
So as you sit and you cry
Wishing you'd die
Asking yourself why
This blue your feeling doesn't seem as bright as the blue in the sky

Happiness, the color of yellow
Excitement or just calm, relaxed, collected, cool and mellow
This feeling seems so perfect, got us feeling so swell so
It's the goal that we all strive for, it sure puts us through hell though
It seems that this journey,
In the end it's gonna burn me
I'm gonna end up on a gurney
Asking for my attorney
Time for a lawsuit, I filed my claim
I know exactly where to place the blame
On the liars that told me about a joy that never came
If you look for happiness the wrong way you'll end up with only shame

Yellow, Red
And Blue
Compose the emotional
Spectrum within you
Black
What is it you lack?
White
Are you ever gonna feel all right?

The colors of pain
These feelings they drain
So easily they can take control
And all the while they're the essence of our soul

Jealousy, the color of green
Vaporous and deadly like the gaseous form of chlorine
This emotion is blatant and can be easily seen
Like high definition picture on your neighbors plasma TV screen
That you can't help but want
You hate the way that he flaunts
Forever it haunts
Forever it daunts
Until you're caught in its vacuum
You will be consumed
Suffocated by the fumes
Your envious ways will lead you to your doom

Purple, the color of fear
A weapon aimed at anything that is unclear
It takes a death grip on you, doesn't let you steer
So as you head right for the edge it won't let you veer
Ignorance is blinding
The resolution is in finding
The solution in your mind and
The conclusion will be binding
So rather than attack what you don't know
Seek to learn more and in time it will show
So this challenge upon you, I do bestow
Because one fear grabs a hold of you it won't let go

Orange, the color of shame
Whittled down and weakened, knowing you're to blame
For a while it was fun, it was just a game
But this beast was too strong for you, it could never be tamed
You play with fire you're gonna get burned
Why don't you listen? When will you learn?
You knew the consequences, but just was not concerned
I hope that you enjoy this torture because it was definitely earned
Look to the future, but don't forget the past
Live in the present, but don't expect it to last
Don't run from your mistakes or hide in the shadows they cast
Because life will always catch up with you because it just goes by too fast

Orange, Purple
And Green
All of the
in betweens
Yellow, Red
And Blue
Compose the emotional
Spectrum within you
Black
What is it you lack?
White
Are you ever gonna feel all right?

The colors of pain
These feelings they drain
So easily they can take control
And all the while they're the essence of our soul

These feelings, inspect them
Emotional Spectrum
Society infects them
Emotional Spectrum
Collect and dissect them
Emotional Spectrum
But we can't correct them
Emotional Spectrum

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