Metrology

what is the measure of sorrow is there a standard unit against which we may rule an overladen mind and a heart demolished graphing with infinite precision each shattered hope and marking the dimensions of dreams ground to dust are tears numbered or more properly and accurately accounted by volume or weight shall we assign a value on a sliding scale to the mutilation of a human soul can we make comparison among various torments or attempt to visualize in a chart of bright colors splashed on a screen the lifelessness of one person to that of another is despair loss or hope denied might it be joy withheld does suffering have weight and volume that we might determine its mass is it instead a void where something which was present has been removed is it possible to create an image of wretchedness a ruined and rotting playground of lost innocence a charred and crumbled husk of a home shattered an arid uninhabitable waste of aspirations unbirthed with what pigment shall we produce such art which color wheel will be used in what earthly perdition are the gauges found reading the depth of misery or the height of anguish what is the magnitude of the grief the touchstone of devastation against which all other grief must be measured

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