Pandora's Box

A Poem by RainbowBangles

Every feeling locked up
Behind an impassive face,
A chest full of emotions
in an unopened case.

On my face was a mask
Of an unfeeling smile,
With none of love and glee
or even hate or guile

Running the rat race,
Sleep walking through life
Methodically I moved,
Not feeling a strife

Every feeling locked up,
Hurting those in my way
I went ahead in life,
My own hurt locked away

Then one day , my chest was full,
It could no longer stand ,
The huge weight of emotions,
They went out of hand

A Pandora's box opened, they spread,
All my feelings once,
I closed it tight with all my might,
And shut the remaining ones.

With heart blackened with negative thoughts,
that flew out from my chest,I
dared to open once again,
That box of living death.

What came out then , I never knew
It had been there in me,
A shining ray of hope called love
That would help me be.

All my feelings locked up,
Like the Pandora's box of yore,
The good was also buried ,
Somewhere beneath its core,

Now again,I was a complete man,
With feelings and refrain,
But Love would always see me through,
and give me hope in pain.

© 2013 RainbowBangles

Author's Note

Wrote this poem a long time ago. But had never had courage to put it for review in a forum like this. Please do let me know what you think. I am a person who not good at expressing my own emotions and somehow they end up in verses like these..

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Kyle J. Lawson

You say you're not good at expressing emotion. Maybe not physically or socially. But through the sole power of words you are. I enjoyed this. The vocabulary you used in this isn't to the point where it's overwhelming. Nice work.