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 Nov 2012 Damaré M
Lily Mills
This monochrome life is nothing without your light.
The colors pour from your finger tips as you frolic about.
The carelessness of your touch creates new brilliance.
To tame you would be detrimental, but to free you would be exquisite.
They try to hide you away and hinder the  beauty
you could create with their monochrome ideals.
Monotone voices and monochrome people,
surrounding and clustered
to catch a glimpse of such a sight is like
watching the soft sun light trickle through the tree tops.
The beauty you are able to expel is like no other you love in spite of everything else.
You shed your light on the cruelest of nights.
Paint the colors of life into everything you see,
and strip away the melancholy of everyday routines.
So happy so lovely so free.
It's time to color our lives withe the beauty of of our imagination...
I sit around the campfire on a distant island off of Michigan. Surrounded by friends and strangers. Enjoying, laughing, and sharing moments with each other. The light gleams in the night sky, shining a way into the corner of my eye. I stare into the fire in front of me that's slowly warming my cold feet and I stop. Not moving. Not blinking. Not feeling, not there. The fire fills my body with warmth, cooking me to a pleasant temperature. I look up quickly as I gasp for air, as if the fire's heat took the air straight out of my lungs. Still looking at the sky, I see darkness; great darkness. Darkness broken up with small gleaming white ***** of light. As I scan the night sky, I feel home. I feel safe, comforted by the vastness of the sky. I feel as if I belong up there in the sky. Knowing I came from them. Knowing I am made up of the very same crucial ingredients that created this universe, those stars, that sky, this planet, and me. I know this, accept it, appreciate it, love it. But I don't know why I am down here and why those stars are up there. Why I feel so insignificant, when that star is full of importance and wonder. Why I feel so lost, so alone in a world full of connections and passion. A world full of beauty, adventure, knowledge, and love. I get lost in this train of thought. I realized I must of been looking at the sky a long time because my friend sitting next to me was saying my name repeatedly and I only started to faintingly make out her words. I don't respond, but instead look down. Then look back at that fire, then back at her. Back to reality. This reality. I then realize this is why I feel lost.
The riot time has ended
The dog days are gone too-

The warmth. Gone.
Bliss turns to breeze
Saddles to boots.
Outside to inside.

It's time for harvest to arise--
She opens her eyes,
And kisses the sky with her orange tinted lips.
The sun shys away.
As do the leaves.
As do I.

Snug. Wishing. Waiting.
For bliss instead of breeze.
Waves of the ocean replacing waves of ice.
For Summer to open her eyes.
Remove her disguise,
And romance the skies.

— The End —