An Emotional Hourglass

Cold as the damp clay that lies in

the bottom of a newly dug grave after a spring rain

Quiet as the sound of the last post

playing eerily over the casket of a dead veteran

Empty like as a mother’s womb

that just lost a baby carried for eight months

Laughter so deep it and makes the sadness  

Fade into a bearable memory of time

Joy so immense that your very heart feels

adrift on a sea of happiness

          Loyalty so deep and committed

                   that it asks not why just when

Emotions so much apart of life

if not experienced how much have you really lived?

                   Feelings that regardless of right or wrong

                             must be felt to know the true value of life

                                      Embrace the feelings and share

                                                With friends, children, parents and wife

As the hour glass slowly empties may the second group outrun the first.