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theharmonica — All Light
Published: 2007-05-30 18:52:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 115; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 2
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All LightYesterday was yellow
Not really a lemon colour
Like son hiding behind
cotton wool haze,
More like a canary
With colour strung bright
And high
Like patriot’s flag.
The day before that? fuschia
Brighter than every canary
But so bright,
Bright so my eyes burned
Like you’d squeezed those lemons in
My eyes,
Jest in that acid;
It burned and burned my skin
So I hid.
Yet we’d had a month of blue days,
Not a dark, inky blue
That makes you want to sigh
All dramatic and amorous
For no mystique!
Not a sea-green, bold hue
That make you sick
Or make you lunge avec trident
Like Poseidon and spit
Thunderbolts into sky
Raining gold.
But a light wash of misery
Painted on windowpanes
Painted on the windscreen
And, with watery, moody disabandon
I cry alkaline.
Today; as I rise
Hopefully as the son of Earth will
peering at us,
curious as child,
holding glass to ant -
I pray for misty greens,
fresh yet bold,
tender upon skin:
But would I still miss the yellow!
