Free Write - Emotions

What is it about the emotions that can dictate the very course of our lives? What is it about a smile or a laugh that touches us so very deep inside without even a moment's thought?

Emotions are a very volatile subject in many, many ways. They cause us to sing in the rain; dance on a roof; cry in our sleep; and any number of strange reactions to the world around us. They can have us singing someone's praises one moment and cursing their very name the next.

As a human being, our lives are dictated by our emotions. If you wake up happy and ready to go in the morning, even if the day is derailed for a moment, you are still ready to face the world. Yet, if you wake up "on the wrong side of the bed," everything seems to go down hill from there.

We attach emotional significance to everything around us. Every sight, smell, taste, and touch brings back some memory of where we were and what we were doing when we first experienced that - and the emotions that surrounded us at that very moment in time. Every sound that surrounds us brings to mind a time where we were elated or crushed - and the sound will affect us the very same way.

So what is it about our emotions that make them so very powerful? What makes us so ruled by those very emotions many try to keep in check?

Talent

Talent is defined by the Princeton word net as being a “natural endowment (natural abilities or qualities)”, but is talent something you’re merely born with? Or is it something you can develop over time with practice?

Venus

a goddess full of grace –
born of the pristine sea foam –
she is the protector of love.

fair in face,
she loves to roam
and watch her worship from above.

struck by her son cupid’s arrow,
she finally settled down
to wed her heart’s only true one.

in admiration that doth grow,
her awesome name, like a jeweled crown,
belongs to the second rock from the sun.

The Sun

washing the sky in vibrant rosy hues,
he awakens –
beginning to raise his sleepy head.
climbing a ladder only he can see,
he begins his daily trek
across the clear, azure sky,
lighting the heavens as he does.
although millions of miles away,
he seems as close as any neighbor –
close enough you can feel every one of
his passionate, warm caresses.
even though we often take for granted
his very presence,
it is hard to deny all the love
the sun provides to us everyday.

Saturn

a mountainous titan of a man with
a callous, frigid nature,
he swalloed his own children at birth,
trying to outwit fate.

outsmarted by his cunning wife,
one child was allowed to live –
bringing the fulfillment of prophecy
and a horrific end to an era.

to remember this man –
father time he is called by some –
they gave his infamous name
to the sixth planet from the sun.

and to see that he never lacks
for the company he always had near,
saturn’s moons and satellites are named
after the rest of his dying family.