POEM TITLE
Rejected Shards of a Rainbow
POEM
Rejected Shards of a Rainbow
People forget
Blackness
Has many colours
Hiding
Or snuggling
inside of it
Blackness protects,
Like Mother Earth
Standing
her ground,
Her nails
Clutching soil
So her mountains
Don’t fall into
The Blackness on the Sea.
All one has to do
Is churn
The Lobster Pot.
Slowly,
Twisted,
gnarled,
sightings
That even Nessie
Would be scared of
Will surface
Because people don’t know
What to do with
The ugly,
rejected shards of the rainbow
Blackness is
the one place
Where the colour wheel
Doesn’t spin in any body’s favour
The one place
Where anyone can take refuge
And feel at home
Enough
To breathe
So unless you want
All that’s within
The Blackness
To come out and play
Let things
Resettle
Below the surface
Let that secret
Wait
And bide its time
Sometimes,
one moment
Defines a lifetime
And sometimes
A lifetime can fit
Into a moment
When it folds at the seams
Even nightmares can
Turn to dreams
Because by then
A lifetime would have seen
All the colours of
Mother Nature
And realised
It’s always been colour blind
Eventually
When we close our eyes
Blackness
Is what we’ll find