Creative Writing and Painting Response Collaboration

Anger and Love. Love and Anger.

Sempiternity. Can anything last forever? Can anything last forever unchanged? Obviously nothing physical can last; the pressures of time, of weather and season get the best of anything to which it is exposed. But what about a person’s base emotion? Anger has always been anger. The blinding erratic red and black fizz that encompasses and pollutes a mind has always been fiber with raw power. Anger can make sparks fly. It can make a weed feel like a towering oak, rooted by passion and elevated by heat. Never has so much confusing, unharnessable energy and single-minded a thought been.

But love. Many of the same words can be used to describe love as anger. Passion, energy, flying sparks. How can anyone be sure that love trumps anger? Because love is a feeling that grows from ones core and infests ones whole body. It courses through veins like the blood with which it shares passage, only faster and with more purpose. Love wriggles around in one’s tummy and can make you smile at nothing.

See why love trumps anger, is because anger is fuelled; powerful but limited. As soon as the cause is lost so is the feeling. But love is enduring it has moments of passion but an eternity of depth. It is fuelled by itself and so can never die. Love, untouched by the wind, unchanged through the seasons or the ages, different for everyone but felt the same by all is sempiternal.

By Jacob Wright

(Painting done by Beth Bartlett)