My Type of Sorrow

Sorrow is like the rainbow, 

It changes colors! 

The effect is the same, 

The eyes shedding tears! 

Sometimes sorrow is grey, 

Like an overcast sky

It threatens to lay bare your heart, 

And yet you can't even cry! 

Sometimes sorrow is green, 

Made so by pure envy, 

It makes your soul burn

The burden on your heart is heavy! 

Sometimes sorrow is purple, 

Like a big nasty bruised knee. 

It hurts to just think of it, 

You yearn to set it free! 

Sometimes sorrow is red, 

The bleeding heart crying. 

Scarlet is the wounds deep

Yet, you hide from the eyes prying! 

Sometimes sorrow is blue,

It's lying deep within you. 

You can't express it in words, 

Only you know how it's true! 

Sometimes sorrow is yellow

It's brightly lit like the sun

Everyone can see its ugly face, 

Even when far away you turn! 

Sometimes sorrow is white,

It's the best one that there is! 

It doesn't hurt you anywhere 

It's just empty space! 

Sometimes sorrow is black, 

The deadliest of them all! 

It consumes you from within!

Takes the heaviest toll! 

And yet like the rainbow,

Making the monotone blue fade, 

All sorrows are needed by us

To make all joys look like a fair trade!