When sorrow pounces upon you
Laying its icy hands on your shoulders
When misery makes its home in you
Pearls of emotion roll down your cheeks
Those tears, which fill your weeping eyes
The watery, salty drops of sadness
That flow out to form a pool at times
When time runs beyond your expectations
The same old drops of extreme joy
That gently drip when ecstasy fills you.
When happiness shoots to the peak, unaware
Those very pearls of emotion roll down your cheeks.
Those are the very drops that glisten your eye,
That moisten the gloomy, sad-filled face
Those pearls of emotion that flow out
When time tends to the two extremes.
