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Be-Mused by the rainbows of grey

Dear Muse.

See, I know what you think. You think sunrises and sunsets are indifferent and synonymous. You can't tell the difference between light and dark and therefore, therefore you are always grey.

I wish just once that you could notice life outside of yourself and the past. I wish you could put my want for change into words without dredging up my failures. I wish you could see the sun and remember all the recent memories where days are rainbows.

But Alas everything is static in your eyes. Whitewashed, faded and grey. When you're not working, things are simply being experienced, and there seems a lack of need to work with you at all, but inexplicably at those times, I miss you.

I was therefore wondering, dear muse... If a compromise is possible; If we could become monochrome?

You know I dream of polychromatic sunsets of inspiration and three dimensional prose, but I am trying to tame my goals so as to make them as naieve and unrealisable as a reformist, or as irrelevant.

Yours in aspiration of even the slightest glimpse of colour...

Self.

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  • usually-untitled
    September 19

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    lovely!
    i love your color metaphor here, and the first paragraph sounds luscious when read aloud.


  • poet360
    September 7

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    this is exactly what i was looking for in the contest! this is amazing. good luck in the contest


  • butchbec
    September 1
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    Thanks Breelynn I really apreciate all the comments! I dont really think much of myself as a writer (im a fine arts student/soon to be educator in high schools) but your words have filled me with some confidence I'm glad I'm not the only one feeling this way with my muse! The comp writer's prompt managed to dredge up quite alot of antagonisms between me and the muse! haha.
    p.s: as soon as I've attempted to hotwire this into the insides of my muse firmly, ill def pass it on to yours

  • Breelynn
    September 1

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    could you forward a copy of this letter to my muse too? I have been feeling the exact same way. I really enjoyed this. You have such a way with words. It leaves me mesmerized. Good luck in this contest. you are truly a talented writer. I am so glad to have stumbled upon you.