Colorful
my grandson loves this video, and so do I; it exemplifies emotional abandonment after getting someone fired up
I feel like the colors in this book,
all of these different emotions and attitudes
spewing out of me.
People come into my life
and open me up,
get all of the juicy colors flowing--
they're so hungry for color,
demanding it until the flow begins, then they try
to turn my colors off, and when that doesn't work,
they slam the book shut
and continue in their pale, colorless lives,
thinking they've left me to drown alone
in all of my colors they insisted on experiencing,
finding themselves overwhelmed,
blame me for being too colorful,
waiting to watch me
explode off the page
and call it their art.
About the Creator
Harper Lewis
I'm a weirdo nerd who’s extremely subversive. I like rocks, incense, and all kinds of witchy stuff. Intrusive rhyme bothers me.
I’m known as Dena Brown to the revenuers and pollsters.
MA English literature, College of Charleston
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Never let your vibrancy be diminished.