When I Am But Letters on Stone

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I see colors when I write

But they are shy and they

Keep in my head


They dance around in my brain

Scrambling the words I remember and

Driving me mad


A flurry of reds, blues, and

Greys,

Contrasts with the pictures my eyes draw


My world is dreary

A room lit by those

Old, dim lamps


I wish they didn't learn to dance

So I don't yearn for them

The colors I can only see when I write


The letters I type out they

Provoke me with their colors

"You can't join us,"


Of course not, I reply,

I'm alive, but the time will come

When I am but letters on stone


Maybe that's when I

Will feel most alive

As the colors in the letters are.





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