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Prismatic

And the Circus of Grey

By Silver DauxPublished about a year ago • 1 min read
Prismatic
Photo by Vinicius "amnx" Amano on Unsplash

It's blood on my tongue.

Fizzy and full of memories.

I've been stuck in a dream

Where the sky loops,

Grey. Black. Grey. Black.

Grey

Then fucking

Black.

Until it blended into some

Liminal horror graveyard

Where ambition is a sickness.

I am sick,

A thing of color

In a circus of grey.

That makes me a freak,

Something that stands

In front of a mindless audience,

Swallows their laughs,

Evokes their pity.

I am a thing unseen.

A prismatic optical illusion.

I don't exist,

Can't exist.

Not underneath the clouds

And the crowds humiliate me,

String me out,

Paint me like a clown,

And dream of feathering me

Because there is nothing so funny

As the soul

Convinced

That its neon lights matter

In the middle of a circus of grey.

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About the Creator

Silver Daux

Writer of the dark! Think of it like flipping rocks, the weird little stories underneath are my jam and jelly. Jam and butter? Just jam. Absolutely no use of AI in any of my works :)

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    Written by Silver Daux