All Those Emotions

All Those Emotions!

Early on in our life, we are soon aware of love and hate -
The extremes on both ends of the scale. But wait,
Further on we see the milder forms which are "like" and "dislike."
This is the luke-warm emotion. We have noticed this since a little tyke.

As it waters down we discover that in some there's mostly unconcern.
And as long as life doesn't present some particular lesson they need to learn,
They have a non-committal and "Oh well" complacent attitude
Like "this is me and that is you; just don't bother me and I won't be rude."

Usually, the friction is instigated when these emotions are real extreme
And sometimes it appears that they reach further back into the soul and scream
For expression. The perpetrators can feel it and express it, but I doubt
If they could explain or rationalize - they have no restraints - just let it out.

This is no attempt to analyze, cause it seems we each brought our own personality
With us when we entered life. A child doesn't understand any other reality
Except what they naturally feel. As life progresses, they learn to survive
By manipulations of their own emotions. This survival instinct is their way to stay alive.

Each soul will experience the whole wide spectrum of survival tactics.
But depending on "who" that soul is within, that body will express exactly,
According to how evolved and spiritual, which determines how they relate
To all the factors that cross their paths with either love, unconcern or hate.

Negative extremes or those who won't move unless the wind moves them
Creates some real situations here on earth, and the light of life grows dim
From the problems that are thus created. And only as we learn to deal with such
In a positive way, can we survive and still understand heaven's touch!