Who can find the place

Where melts into sadness?

How does it happen

That imperceptible shift

From hating others to hating yourself?

Who can find the place

Where anger melts into sadness?

When the flame of passionate rage

Meets the chill of cold despair

At the core of one’s heart?

Who can find the place

Where anger melts into sadness?

Why would anyone bother

To seek it out

And mark it?

Who can find the place

Where anger melts into sadness?

What would they do with it

If they found it?

Put a gate up?

The melting point

Of these two emotional extremes

Is not a question of temperature.

The answer can only be found

Within

And varies from person to person

As the boiling point varies

From substance to substance.