Human Colors

Human Colors

Face gone pale

Skin runs cold

I sing a young tale

From lips feeling old

Of a recent reflection

On my time here

My life as a projection

And all I've learned

As my body shakes

And my mind unsheathes

Worlds collide

And images breathe

All before an atmosphere of blue

People have gone too fast

Approach too slow

Nothing ever lasts

Long enough to grow

Time would freeze

For a camera lens

But not for the passing

Of a long-lived friend

Cold and alone

Eyes turning blue

I'm beginning to zone

As the world changes hues

At the end of moments

Is this all there is?

I don't think anyone knows

Because no one ever says

Questions I could never heed

Fear and anticipation collides

And begin to breed

All before an atmosphere of blue

People start to pass

Blind and deaf

To what hurt the world has done in the past

And even to my own death

We began eating the fruits of knowledge

Only to find they've been rotten

Leaving us standing on the edge

Ourselves forgotten

Our minds turn blue

And someone beginning to fade

Sees the world

From somewhere far, far away

The details are small

And reality becomes irrelevant

We might at one time feel tall

But eventually we're all spent

The assembly line whirrs

And we slowly sort through life

The hands of time turn

All before an atmosphere of blue

Face gone pale

Skin runs cold

Sinking into dirt so blue

I sing the oldest tale ever told

Of how Gods have forgotten

And in the crowds we fade

Of dying fields of cotton

And our very last day

How hatred entangles

And our loved-ones have angles

How we take our first step

And it'll be the last one we ever take

We stop for a night's rest

Then our journeys we forsake

As blood ceases to flow

And images halt motion

No one ever knows

Or at least there is no emotion

The planet keeps spinning

And things never better

Our spirits are thinning

Before an atmosphere of blue

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Deep, I know. The inspiration for this poem is assorted observations and songs, it's just something I ended up throwing together without thinking about it. I hope you all enjoy it, and I'd really like to hear what you think about it, even if it is just a senseless flame, I'd still like to know.

Momento Amor~
Hiroko Hana