empathy

There is a feeling like no other

That paints my life in color

The painstaking purple of pain

my cheeks grow pink with shame

This feeling like no other

is not a constant color

While I am red and enraged

Trees remain a deep sage

This feeling like no other

At times it tends to smother

Intimate indigos free me of my burdens

And the sun will set in different shades of bourbon

This feeling like no other

Does not make me unique

But it feels hard to reach

like the white top of a mountain peak

And the next time you look at me

I do hope you’ll try to see —

It is not easy for me to be soft

These deep blue moons underneath my eyes

Are a testament to the number of times I looked to the sky

And asked for the courage

To explore this hue

That I can simply just be to

And here is to a few years more

There are so many colors

I am not yet strong enough to explore

This feeling like no other

Swallows me into a black hole

For days i sit in a lavender lull

If this feeling were one color

I’d have to call it

the one that taught me