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The Forgotten Color

A meditation on the one shade they share with the heavens

By Henrik HagelandPublished 12 months ago 1 min read

The year now pours its steps along,

toward darker times, a deeper song.

The sky shows hues both vast and rare,

the shade we love is always there.

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The wind grows strong with restless might,

the fruit-trees shake, clouds chase in flight.

They race across the arching dome,

where color tears—hold tight your home.

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The ocean lashes at the shore,

its shade is dim, not bright as yore.

No urge to leap in waters cold,

Autumn, of you one can’t be bold.

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My thoughts drift back to quiet days,

when sea and sky shared mirrored plays.

Reflections bore the same old dyes,

the sun’s craft carved eternal skies.

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My heart is bound to this one shade,

I wait in vain, no chance is made.

Alone, forgotten, warmth concealed,

yet deep inside, my charm revealed.

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The seasons turn, the year must go,

and with it shifts the hair’s own glow.

The sky now bears a somber hue,

it strikes my gloom with tolling true.

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About the Creator

Henrik Hageland

A poet, a writer of feelings and hope. A Dane and inhibitant of the Earth thinking about what is to come.

A good story told or invented. Human all the way through.

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    Written by Henrik Hageland