The Emotions  (inspired by Friendship)

The Emotions   ( a work inspired by Friendship)

Once upon a time, there was THE original poetry site where all the feelings in the world would log on to write. It was moderated by the Four Dimensions, who were extremely liberal in thought and hardly ever intervened or became involved in the day-to-day posts and activity. Everything was composed and written by The Emotions; Happiness, Sadness, Knowledge, Jealousy and all of the others, including Love. If an Emotion had anything to say, anything at all, they logged on and left their thoughts, waiting for any comments they other Emotions had to say. Jealousy would always collaborate with Spite and leave a tersely worded repost. Ecstasy would tend to become over-excited and leave rather a mess, but Subservience was always available to clean it up. The worst one of all was Ego, who would actually make comments on his own posts, under assumed Emotional names.
  
One day the Dimensions announced to the Emotions that, due to the rapidly increasing costs of running a free site, it had to, unfortunately close down. The liquidators were an astute bunch who immediately drew up a contract with Morals. He sold individual sites and blogs to all of the other Emotions, some grouping together to form buy their own niche cooperative sites. One was made up of all the dark, destructive Emotions and another was purely for the ethereal, dreamier contingent. So all signed and left the failing site, creating their own places where other like-minded individuals could go, except for Love. Love was the only Emotion who stayed, wanting to hold out until the last possible moment and remaining fiercely loyal to the Dimensions.
 
When The site had virtually closed, the liquidators having sold off anything of remaining value, Love decided to ask for help. Richness was passing by, selling advertising space for his new, fully financed site. Love asked politely "Richness, can I write a small blog with you?" Richness laughed "No, of course you can't. There are huge amounts of money to earn and I don't have space for any free-loaders. There is no place on there for you."

Love then decided to ask Vanity who was also passing by. "Vanity, please can you help me?" Vanity put her nose even higher into the air, if that was possible and answered "I can't help you, Love. You are all wet and soppy and would totally ruin the look of my gorgeously decorative posts"

Sadness was close by, lurking with intent as was his want, so Love asked, "Sadness, please let me go with you." Accompanied by sniffing and in a tear-filled voice Sadness answered."Oh, Love. I wish I could but I am so desperately unhappy that I am joining with Depression to cheer myself up.”

Happiness passed by Love too, arms linked with Rapture and Euphoria, but she was so happy that she did not even hear when Love called her.

Suddenly, there was a booming voice, "Come, Love, I will take you." It was a Dimension. She felt so blessed and overjoyed that Love even forgot to ask where they were going to. They arrived at DUP, a new site that had opened especially to give the lesser Emotions somewhere to write in piece. The Dimension left Love in the company of Friendship and went on their way.

Realizing how much she was going to need the help of Gratitude and Thankfulness, who had also joined, Love asked Knowledge, "Who helped me?"
"It was the Dimension called Time," Knowledge answered. "Time?" asked Love. "But why did Time come to my rescue?

"Knowledge smiled with deep wisdom and answered, "Because only Time is capable of understanding how valuable Love is."