Emotions

This is written by a 12 year old student of mine. I am just the vehicle. Emotions He wanted to capture conversations And take someone else's lines He wanted to steal the sunlight To capture it in a jar And watch through the class as it shines Wanting to spit out the truth And have it dribble down his chin To see all his pain and sorrow as it escapes from the abyss within He wanted to show you his tears so that you could collect them like rain And teach him that pain Was never his fault He wanted to yell at the top of his lungs "But still I persist" And brings his tears to a halt He wanted to inhale the sorrow And make sure that there was no room for gray So that there was sunlight tomorrow And he wanted to teach people That perfection is artificial And that the only route to happiness is to write you own lines