Colour is my reflection
Colour through my eyes my reflection.
My eyes my brown eyes my mother gave
My hair my black hair my father gave
My skin my pale fair skin my nana gave
My my lips my faded rose lips my grandpa gave
This is who I am but I have no colour
This is who I am but my colour dont shine me
I shine because my vibrating reflection refines me.
I shine because my reflection defines me
I am who I am because all of colour my love gave
I am who I am because of the joyful colour around me.
When I see you I dont see the colour but the reflection of me
When I love you I dont see the colour your love gave but I see the reflection of my love for you
I see every colour around me but only my reflection defines the colours around me.
About the Creator
The Salt in her Voice
The myth says mermaids sing to lure sailors to their death. But why? The ocean is huge. Only 5 percent has been discovered by man. Why would a creature of the sea with that much space to roam ever care about the fate of men on ships? The answer, as it turns out, is not a simple one at all. The truth about the myth is older than the tides. Long ago before the first ship ever cut across the surface, the sea made a pact with the sky. The sky would take the souls of the drowned. Anyone who died in storms or any quiet accidents of the deep would have their soul lifted upward to the Heavens while the bodies would remain below, feeding the oceans endless hunger. The greedy sea however wanted more souls than the sky would claim. So it created mermaids. It gave them beautiful voices woven from currents and moonlight. It commanded them to sing. "Bring forth the ones who float where they should sink." it instructed them. So they did. They never killed out of malice but out of obligation. They sung to summon, not to seduce. A mermaid's voice could loosen the tether between the body and soul, making any man step willingly into the water. The sea would take the body and the sky would take the soul. Balance maintained.
By Sara Wilson7 days ago in Fiction
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