The Duality of Emotions

By Kayden

When you strip away the names,

Joy and sorrow are just the body’s way of breaking open

Laughing and crying are not opposites. They are echoes, two colors from the same flame.

They rise from that tight place in the chest where words can't reach. When something touches you so deeply, the body forgets how to pretend.

Your throat catches

Your breath stutters

Your eyes well up

And whether it spills out as laughter

Or collapses as tears

The truth is…

You're feeling

All at once

Too much to hold in

Too much to hide.

And so your body has only one language for that.

Release

Sometimes you laugh until you cry

Sometimes you cry until you laugh

And in both

Your heart says:

“I’m alive ”“I’m overwhelmed”“ Something in me is too big for silence”“ Let me feel it”

“Let me breathe”

By Kayden