paint | day 23 | freewrite

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the paint is fresh
spread across once white walls
lavender blue, lavender green
the prettiest colors ever seen

the paint is dry
with marks of time
crayons and pencils and burns
from life and its twists and turns

the paint chips away
old, worn out
the drywall behind is bare
no one is left to care

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