In sepia-colored separation

Is not nostalgia our greatest treasure chest,

Memories suddenly embellished if not

Illuminated.

Often pigmentation comes after the photo

A bug was once a siren,

A couch a ship,

The sky a sea,

Now in monochromatic scale,

There is something about the 

“Used-to-be”

About the

“Once was,”

That invites me.

Didn’t people used to feel taller,

The world bigger.

Expansive Earth,

How I grieve the flight of my rose-colored glasses.

My glasses now are clear,

Transparent.

Adolescence is the only lens I can look through,

One finite in nature yet

Its appearance permanent to the juvenile eye.

As though time is not ticking but rather

Slicing,

Each fragment of my cornea suddenly tinted in 

A moment.

A memory.

What memorabilia best suits my mind’s invention?

What paraphernalia will take me back to a world

Not split into now and then, 

But divided by what is and what can be.

Long division felt like the hardest problem,

Yet an equation can be solved

Unlike a puzzle that underlies uncertainty.

So, for now,

I will watch the clouds turn back into dragons

And watch the trees fade into the dress of green,

And witness the world become another princess,

Crowned by only me.

Crumbs in my bed

Tears that I've bled

Wonder if you shed

One,

Too. 

Rain caught on barbed-wire

Sliding my hand between tires

Your ire,

Freed 

Then 

Fire. 

All I want for my two dollar a penny

Life spent in many

Just collected in a few,

But it all comes back to you.

blue portaits line the halls

self-portraits maybe

memoirs in memorabilia

are fragmenting in possibility.

night turns into dusk into dawn

days spread thing by potential

deeper shades leave reasonant holes

and all comes to call

in nighttime wanderings

right against the blue.

blue portaits line the halls

self-portraits maybe

memoirs in memorabilia

are fragmenting in possibility.

night turns into dusk into dawn

days spread thing by potential

deeper shades leave reasonant holes

and all comes to call

in nighttime wanderings

right against the blue.