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Dec 23 4 tweets 2 min read
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Sliding Scale

I love grey in all its penumbrations.
I made up that word, for what is a penumbra but
a cloud, a shroud, a shadow –
and what is grey if not all those things?
I made up that word, for what is a penumbra but
a soft sadness, a place to hide, a quiet reminder of absence.
And what is grey if not all those things
we disguise, pain best left unacknowledged.
A soft sadness, a place to hide, a quiet reminder of absence –
things we can do nothing to alleviate.
We disguise pain best left unacknowledged,
yet some think it's better to bleed that bright scarlet.
Things we can do nothing to alleviate:
a cloud, a shroud, a shadow.
Yet some think it's better to bleed that bright scarlet.
I love gray in all its penumbrations.

© 2017 RC deWinter

Published in Gargoyle Magazine 73 (Paycock Press) June 2020
Art: Gray Matter © 2015 RCdW

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