All my love were lost on you.
Magnificent are your shades of blue,
My shades of black are beautiful too,
Its all so pretty yet you have no clue.

-fir.m

shades of Melanin.

It was gifted to us from the supreme.
It all started from that gift which is only inherited from us;
That we gave the world an enchanting and seductive formula.
From creamy vanilla to lustful ebony.
A rainbow of, melanin.
We are the light and the dark here on mother earth.
We glisten in the sun and glow in the moonlight.
We are the reign of earth and the creators of life.
Thanking the heavens for the shades of melanin.

Late night thoughts are tying a knot with late night urges to splatter my brain in a blank canvas.
Countless of brown shades I've made, I've mixed.
Not even close.
I gave it a touch of green.
Wrong, your velvety voice whispers along the back of my head.
None of these can even closely resemble your eyes, none can grasp them.
Why can't I grasp them?
I laced my fingers through my hair in frustration and I went into an archive in my mind, remembering that color.
Velvet. Another color I could make a thousand shades of, but they could never match your voice.
Why can't I grasp you?

The leaves, the sea, the sky,
The grass, the birds, my eyes,
Blues swimming into yellows,
Kissing each other on the nose,
Booming into 1000 symphonies,
From birds beaks to cloudy peaks,
Wash my eyes in colour,
And peel back the ground to the core,
So I can see it's roots,
It's bones.

What are the lies
lying behind the shades
of your ever deceiving eyes

The now famous boil weevil
caused all manor
of Southern White upheaval

The Seven Bark road
weaves over Double Oak Mountain
collecting heat and evening toads

Smoke from the forest fire
gives the lisping sunset
colors that surely inspire

Your August embrace
and February kiss present
a hot and cold emotional case

And the motions made
over the days that come
leave life lower than grave

The summer's green pumpkins
lay squash in fields of dream
dangling in winter's winds .

Shades of night.
If we turn off the lights.
Thoughts leave our mind.
Our souls utterly unwind.
Leaving today behind.
In our dreams we will find.
Stories we create.
They can be so vivid.
By closing your eyes
I hope you experience.
This beautiful story
with love flowing in it.
So I wish you
good night.
By taking a flight.
To dreamland
into the moonlight.