Snow Melt

Day 1 Journal Challenge: Joy & Sadness

"In order to experience true joy, one must quell any feelings of sadness."by totodile

Joy and sadness are lovers,
walking hand-in-hand
over a rock strewn highway.

Joy sees the roses beside the road,
inhales their fragrance,
picks a blossom;
a thorn pierces her finger
drawing blood
and she weeps
at the beauty of the rose.

Sadness sees the difficulties before them
and the thorns on the stems of the rose bushes;
he bewails the unfairness of existence,
the terror of beauty laced with pain,
curses the stones that burse his bare feet.

Joy smiles through the tears and the pain
convinced that the end of the journey will bring
them to paradise
and to the tree of life
where they will merge into
a single multihued butterfly.