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loneliness after Matthew Dickman
loneliness entered my room that day.
her gun-metal grey hair covered the
lines of tears that engraved
themselves into her lifeless cheeks.
she floated to my bed holding a stack
of what looked like photos.
the impliable bones in her hands
delivered a stack of exposures to my lap,
consisting of the three simple colors that created the world.
people often forget about those colors;
magenta, the color of congruity, the color
of peace that only comes between two people
when they are truly at ease with each other.
cyan, the color of tranquilness, the color
of the undisturbed waves that make their way
up the shores of empty beaches in the winter.
yellow, the token of springtime and the spectrum
of the light that comes when the sun decides to rise in the morning.
however, yellow can also symbolize deception and cowardice,
much like the cowardly lion in the
movies I used to watch as a child.
loneliness looked over me as my
fingers flipped through the 4x6s,
looking through the memories
that never seemed to satisfy the
cavern that lay deep inside my chest.
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I wrote this poem about portraying the feeling of loneliness as a human and what it would look like to have her drift into your bedroom on a lonely night.