[K] My Missing Spectrum

[Kaiya]

TITLE: My Missing Spectrum
TYPE: Free Verse
CRITIQUE: Yes
OTHER: Featured on RedBubble groups five times.

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I feel sort of hollow
On this day of all days
The technicolored liquid of my core
Resides not in its usual chamber
So, I don’t know where to look

I’ve searched
Meticulously
Through the over-stuffed cabinets of my mind
Beneath the polluted seas of my stomach
And along the smooth roots of my skeleton
Everything was fuzzy-edged and done in monochromatic colors
That wasn’t me at all

But as I went on
The longer I went on
Wandering and trying to find my beautifully-plumed core
It all became familiar
The rotted plants of life
The rusted machinery of movement
It all became routine

I’m looking through smoke
At a life that I don’t fit into
A jigsaw puzzle of excitement and color
That rejects my piece of maleable angles and shades of gray
The shell, boring
That is keeping my glorious spectrum from me

[christine ,]

Yet another beautiful work. I love the concept and like to say I can relate to it...

[Kaiya]

Mm, yeah. This is a, well, really personal piece. I'm glad it's relatable, though I wish you didn't have to feel that way. XD You know?