Feelings

If feelings were colours
what would they be?

Would anger look like
a blood-red rose or
deep dark purple like a nasty bruise?

Would sorrow be a
midnight blue with
swathes of black running through?

Would empathy be lavender
soft and warm?

Would compassion be pink
like cotton candy or would
it look more like the blue of
a clear, cloudless sky?

Would sadness be grey like
a rainy day?

Would love be yellow
like the sun shining bright?

Would hatred be a colour at all
or would it just swallow up
all colours within the universe?

Would anxiety stay still
long enough to see what hue
it contains?

I think that joy
would be
a smile!

~Joss Burnel