Clouds Kissed in Color

Feeling, forgetting, ignoring

how do you go past each soul

that strays on your path?

Would you stay for a while,

have spirit talks

divine what waits beneath the surface

unfold mirage

and reach out to touch hearts?

***

Not crossing the whole distance

will only let you know

looks, love, desires,

only by half.

It may be you are looking

at the sunlit half,

the obvious for strangers.

What if you took your time

to delve toward the essence?

The night waiting inside

may threaten to take hold

of energy, thoughtful devotion

but souls united in the dark

will bring more light

together.

***

They help each other up,

the bring the good to rest,

renewed, refreshed,

breathing without the layers

of dust and sadness

that didn’t let dreams take on colors

of imagination.

***

Swimming in clouds of appearances

will make you dizzy,

you won’t know how to tell

the false from the heartfelt

embrace

of compassion,

from shadows and appearance

that only stay a flitting second,

leaving you stranded

on a sea

of broken dreams.

***

Take time to know your heart,

look for what makes it glow,

touch sky and clouds

with lingering kisses

of belonging.

Beloved for all time

beyond the walls of fate,

tolerance can rain down

on each heart

that looks up.

***

And in the maze of dreams,

don’t search for yours alone,

look out for lights that beckon

and share colors

with your own.

It’s not the brightest you should choose,

it can absorb and melt you

in flames of forlorn,

lost hope.

***

Don’t get consumed

in the wish to be one

with people you love and admire.

Build your own home,

your garden,

hold hands with kindred souls

let their candles light yours

do good, wish well, show kindness

and your door

will ever stay open

to love

and keep out shades of sadness.

***

Where joy reigns undeceived

dreams come, shared and united

with hopes for now,

tomorrow,

and all the futures

that reside in you.

Look to the mirror of the next day,

or yesterday,

see how you’ve changed

keep colors in your eyes,

your face, your heart,

bright,

undaunted by dusk.

***

Gray can still glow in darkness,

once kissed by sunny clouds.

You keep your treasures locked inside

the key is kindness.

It unlocks hearts, foretells

what will come to be

if you wish

again,

once on a leaf,

a time for yesterdays turned blue

in colors of deep amber, gold,

embroidered in one lace

of knitted emotions

that keeps you floating

on ocean mirroring

a sky of tenderness.

© 2022 Amy Christie

Photo credit: Pixabay

Originally published on Medium