Poem

(A Poem by Tabitha Scott)

Sudden Release

I never knew anger had a taste.
Vile and passionate
Dripping down your tongue
And ravaging and laying waste
Within your soul.

Fear has a flavor even stronger.
Fierce and colorful
Nauseatingly cold and savage
Bringing out your fight or flight
Until you fold.

Sorrow tastes like salty water
Riptide crashing
All around and waves rising
Falling and threatening to drag you
Down under tow.

Self hatred becomes a good
And welcome respite
From all the irritating failures
And disgusting flaws highlighted
From the crowd.

Disgust furrows out to feast
Upon sanity
Or the pieces you have left
Until it slowly begins to lighten
Up your load.

Then peace and joy come in
You are rescued
And given milk and honey off
The fork of He who came to save
On earth below.