Poetic Prose: Emotions

Emotions

They can take us up to cloud nine.
Or down to the depths of despair.
Are they worth it?
Are the highs enough to balance out the lows?
Can the joy of one moment make up for the anguish of another?

Do you wish that you could control your emotions?
So that you would only feel happiness, and not pain?
But if all is grand, nothing is.
If everything were delightful, nothing would be.
You cannot have the good without the bad.

There is no gain without loss.
But I believe that it goes the other way as well.
There is no loss, without some gain.
Study your life and I think you will agree.
There is no day without night.