Monday, February 15, 2021

The Color of Pain - One of My Poems from 2018

 


The color of pain


The color of pain is grey

And it is brushed across the land

Where it remains impervious

To considered attention

Where it is dry in the rainfall of

Winter.


The sound of pain is grey

And it wafts from the sky

Penetrating the shield of

The window,

The shingle of the roof,

The ears of the mendicant.


The smell of pain is grey

It’s malodorous presence

Remains impervious to wind

And rain;

It colors the air, the air of

Winter;

Grey.




Feb. 14, 2018

Copyright Elmore Nimrod Scott Jr. 

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