-- Signature of Our Emotions --

by John Herlihy

Where and how and who would we ever be,

Without the fine signature of our emotions.

Bereft with no true sense of our humanity,

Without recourse to our long-held notions.

Think of ourselves when left totally alone,

No one else around and there on our own.

Are we mere structures of flesh and bone,

Or are we from shadows and light sewn?

There in the mind lives the persona of our ego,

Assess, take charge, following impulses of will.

Emotions make melodies as notes of a piano,

Mind sharp as a knife, heart with emotions to fill.

We laugh and we cry in life’s valleys and hills,

The incredible highs and lows of mood swings.

Our lives emotional, full of hardship and thrills,

The mind talks logic, the emotional heart sings.

The deep connection of senses and emotions,

The feeling of wonder as beauty fills our eyes.

Lyrical melodies fill our minds with notions,

On powers of appreciation, the world relies.

Love and hate, hope, fulfillment, and despair,

Each a unique signature of all that we can do.

Nothing so heavy that we cannot rightly bear,

Emotions to inform what we thought we knew.

Signature of our emotions, that’s who we are,

Reason of the mind with the heart combined.

Through darkness shines the light of each star,

The base metal of our being thru the soul shined

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Copyright © John Herlihy

Friday 18 July 2024