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  Aug 2020 Priscilla Charity
Bill Adair
Poor men talk to God.
Rich men talk of wealth and fame.
Poets talk to ghosts.
Sometimes I like
to dress up my tears in black
place them on the runway
and wait to be cheered for...

Maybe I'm a fashion designer by heart...
The things life teaches you
I let you trace out my heart
in dotted lines
When I asked why you didn't
colour it?...
You said it was in black & white

And now that you're gone,
my tears are doing their best ,
going through the dots ,
resurrecting the picture

my blood is flowing through,
providing the colour

Perhaps you made me an artist
Cause
Whenever I'm asked about the rough texture,the cracks,the fadings....
My answer is always....MOSAIC...
When you told me
It would last forever
I should have known;
forever is a number
Sometimes its
better to mean what you say
than say what you mean.
I want to sketch every
memory in a note book
cover each page
with blood diluted by tears
slowly forming patterns
some as dark as henna,
some forgotten.
At least I'll know I'm not
bearing it alone.
Every one that comes into my life only tends to gift me memories.I've become a memory keeper and I can't bear it alone anymore.
Sometimes I wonder
if noise had a colour
then what shade
would silence be
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