Earthenware

Earthenware

Her rich blond hair dripped onto her work

Frustrated, picked, and pulled

She looked out her dorm window, chilled by

A Chicago end of summer's night , lined

By dark quiet clouds clapping chorused with a constant tapping

Naturally, she glances back but her attention is extracted by

The striped cup.

Fired by earthenware ceramic

Coffee-stained tan

School-house red

Garden-filled-of-dandelion yellow

Clear-quarry blue

Purposely-lost-in-forest green

The colours of where she used to live.

Giving herself a break, she picks up her guitar

Thumbing and scratching through songs she taught herself

Strained by an unknown sickness, her voice quivers

At the words her parents used to sing

Together they used to play, now numb to touch

Her sight is filtered to only see

The striped cup.

Fired by earthenware ceramic

Coffee-stained tan

Roaring-Rambler red

Golden-worn-cross yellow

Midnight-stroll-on-the-Michigan blue

Studying-on-new-grass green

The colours of where she lives now

She climbed into her cradle of blankets

Wondering what happened to the clapping and tapping

She presses her head against her bear,

Faint smell of everlasting cardamom and Arabic spices.

As the last drop of caffeine slowly evaporates

She wishes she were back but,

Her water cooled, star dancing eyes

saw once more

The striped cup.

Fired by earthenware ceramic

Coffee-stained tan

Mom's-windbreaker red

Her-brother's-toy-helicopter yellow

A-bestfriend's-frayed-sweater blue

Her-dad's-favourite-shirt green

Colours of Home.