woody nightshade

July 3, 2016

Life is touched in gold, and bathed in silver

Touched in nirvana, bathed in desperation, by affliction, by mystery

some pain, never promised gain

Bathed in the blackness of the loud, engraved in the brightness of the night

sculpted in the shadows of the trees.

Touched by the heavens nakedness, touched in silence, bathed in voicelessness

Empty repetition voiced by the voices that voice the opinions of the opinionated,

Silly stories spread stridently, silly stories spread silently

but insightful is the blind, that then lead the seeing

for the seeing have no sight

What if seeing is blindness and blindness is true sight

For the blind 20/20 is their ability of seeing

seeing truth, seeing light, seeing understanding, seeing might .

bounded like a clown, In search of something unable to be found

A smile painted for the world and for the mirror, a shaking frown

words of perseverance left weightless, in an era of hate

unless every syllable is said, and all the words like the people that tried..

.bled

Bled of hope, of revolution, and success

Bled of struggles, left with advices to be unsaid

For there is no guide on how life is to be approached

Oh, fools are we, oh fools are they

When normal is a standard to measure the unmeasurable

A system that wobbles and is as unsteady as optical illusions

But silences is required for us to be able to understand these transactions

Transactions of trial and error, misunderstood and hopeful

Touched in power bathed in weakness

Touched in hope, bathed in Agony, by gloom , by fear

Maybe some joy, never any freedom

Free will wrapped in temptation. Freedom stuffed with limitation

Shimmering shrine of crimes and sad poems written in lines

Lines of terror, lines of grief

Life is touched in gold, and bathed in silver

By // Ivana Kpessou

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