I Live In Alabaster



I live in alabaster
Emptiness and cold
Use to live in a pattern of rainbow

There's no going back
To me thats's black and white
Maybe we can paint in grey just for the night

The walls are alabaster
The floor is marbled cold
But your turquoise eyes make me feel at home
Sapphire running down the side of my check
You fill the room with emerald every time you speak  

So I'll demolish in yellow
And damage in red
Refurnish in blue then pick pink rooms instead
I'll burn it down with orange
Or teal
Or Chartreuse
Because I miss your purple
The color of you

About this poem

This is about the end of a relationship. Excepting what went wrong and learnig to start a new

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Written on February 27, 2024

Submitted by ryanfuzz95 on February 27, 2024

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABC XDD ABXXX CEEXXXXX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 565
Words 120
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 5, 8

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  • Waldensoul
    I liked the lyrical quality that resulted from the infusion of color
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