Monday, December 15, 2008

This life...

contains a heaping truckload of bliss...
and a tablespoon of tragedy.
I've realized it is within this tablespoon that
my hands have become damaged.

They were so completely drenched in chemicals...
I'm quite surprised I haven't acquired some sort of cancer.
(I hope I haven't, anyways.)
The smell of toxins waft into my nose.

However, I have finally rinsed my hands;
I have soaped them clean.
And as I did, I watched the shades of red, blue, and purple
decolorize, and soon disappear in the water
spiralling down the sink...into the abyss.

There's not a spot of paint left...not a mask of colour,
only my bare skin remains...
and naked, I can enjoy paradise...
the paradise that is my life.

I'm sorry that it has taken me this eternity to realize.
Don't worry,


"I have JUST FINISHED."
And this masterpiece will now emerge into a full blossom.

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