Pandora's Box

Love is like a fruit bowl
Many colors; each so sweet,
Vengeance is a lover
Who would rather go and cheat.
 
Honesty a canvas
Blank but filled with many shades,
Envy is a blood pool
Never meant for you to wade.
 
Pride is like a dark cloud
You can't touch; but it will rain,
Greed can be a staircase
Each step stabbing you with pain.
 
Happiness a rainbow
If you chase it it will flee,
Gratitude will fill you
As will honey for a bee.
 
Wrath can be a hammer
As it shatters bitter souls,
Jealousy will see your
Heart is raked across the coals.
 
Tolerance can be a bridge
Across a raging river,
Lust is all consuming
Needs more than you can give her.
 
Gluttony is like a sea
Depths plunge beyond the darkness,
Sloth can be a broken clock
Can't keep up with all the rest.
 
So many fates to choose
It could seem a paradox,
But what would one expect
When they've cracked Pandora's Box?