Shades & Shadows

Shades And Shadows

Shades and shadows

Lights and Darks

Loves and Hates

Twisted hearts

Rinsed by life

Squeezed in part

Dripping rainbows

Abstract art

Here hangs my canvas

Beating fast

Humming to palms

That dare to ask

'Why the rush?'

Some fears demand

A speedy step

I'M OUT OF BREATH BUT

I'm breathing still

In bated breaths*

Just counting bubbles

I meant the s*

Weighed down by pressures

At deeper depths

Yet at the surface

My mouth will arch

My eyes will water

No tear will drop

My cheeks will beam

When the laughter starts

I do not cry

When times get hard

I'd rather embrace it

With open arms

Than bury my face in

The lost and found

For shadows thrive

On light to lurk

Shadows need light

For shadows to work

So my face LIGHTS UP!

When shadows come round

When life seems dull

And the earth is flat

And the moon is apparently wearing

A baseball cap

When birds are horses

And trees are bees

When light is shadow

EVERYTHING

Is not as it seems

Different shades

Different people

Different ways

To perceive the evil

But sometimes a tear

Will break my heart

For holding back

Fills up the well

Overflowing stories

You'd hate to tell

So every now

And every then

Find a worthy vessel

Mine is my pen

To whisper secrets

That have you spent

So shadows can die

In the light of friends

In the light of words

Or something else

Let the ghosts of the past

Have their rest

And let the glow in your heart

Light up the rest