A Chemistry of Emotions: Sadness

Sadness is something soluble

It has a heaviness, a pull, a force, a weight,
a gravity towards that which will dissolve it;

a deep and hollow longing
for home in a greater container, a larger flask, an ocean;
embraced into solution
in the vast and empty bosom of a solvent.

Never to erase it, no.
But, as though the hot and blinding sorrow of a single sun
could, within the dark forgiving rim of sky,
relax into a million tiny stars.

And, what started as a room empty without you
dissolves into
a room
with only
me.