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Emotional life


Ecclesiastes 11:10      New English Translation

10 Banish emotional stress from your mind.

and put away pain from your body;

for youth and the prime of life are fleeting.

 

Emotional life

 

Man’s life seems sensational, broken into parts

The first one is affection and desires of the heart

The third is based on feelings that undergird the rest

Three in one but separate at home, and never a guest

 

Reactionary motion is often displayed, catching us off-guard

Even though it is always repeating and if we think it is not so

And we trigger it to happen and experience the part

So we can feel the way we like and appear not to apropos

 

Sorrow follows upon joy, depression after the excitement

Despondency and optimism cling closely to one to another

The mind is totally foreign to this; it just passes an indictment

For it reaches for some sense, and I wished it did not bother

 

Jan Wienen 

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