Sunday, August 12, 2012


The dust that surrounds us,
The dust that separates us,
A speck of dust.
I can see it,
My iris black against the dark,
The darkness of my mind.
I am the speck,
A part of a whole,
A whole lot of specks.
So many, that I cannot see,
See myself anymore,
Or me.

So clear at first,
Now hidden in this sea.
See? I am the drop,
The water drop,
In the sky,
A part of a whole.
Oh, no more,
I do not know,
What I am.


I see another speck,
Just like me.
A blemish in the sky,
A ray of light,
And we are whole,
Once more.
Not parts anymore,
But clusters, together.


I drop then,
Then again
I am a drop,
A water drop,
A part of a whole,
Not whole anymore.
No clusters, no rain, no sky, no sea,
I see no more.
My iris a black hole,
Floating into oblivion.
I must.
I am stardust.

Umbrella Love


It started like it always did, suddenly.
I was prepared, thankfully.

My yellow umbrella protected me,
People with black ones surrounded me.

I closed my eyes and imagined the scene from above,
I was a speck of yellow dust.

I was the Sun in outer space,
I was surrounded by darkness.

Slowly as I went higher and further from the scene,
I spotted another color, a bright green.

Underneath the safety of my cover, I gravitated towards the holder.
I wanted a face, a name, something more than a color.

And then we were face to face.

My umbrella brushed against his,
And green raindrops fell from it.

I felt them on my lips,
The wetness of rain.

He smiled and dried them,
Using his lips.

And just like that, we were intimate.

We swam through the black sea,
Green and yellow, yellow and green.

We were happy,
Relatively.

When people pushed past me,
And sometimes drenched me.

He’d be there to dry me,
To love me.

He asked me, after a few miles.
“Would you like to come under mine?”

We moved in with each other,
And formed a blue cover, together.

He held the umbrella for us,
He was the North Star that guided us.

But, there was no shore to be found,
And the tiresome journey went on.

I wanted to hold the umbrella one day.
He refused and I tried to walk away.

But it was too dark outside.
My eyes had gotten used to the light.

I did not know how to alone anymore.
How much longer could I keep this up for?

And then, it stopped raining.

And I walked away, smiling.