dVerse Poets – Poetics – Black
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“The colour of truth is gray.” Andre Gide
Truth
Grief is incontrovertible in black,
and depression, I’m told,
barks all night
and absorbs light in the day,
while white as light
is Jekyll and Hyde
in the woods,
no telling the deception,
but grey,
now there’s a venerable colour
that speaks truth.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
