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Pastel


The word kept popping up.
Only a few times
but enough to get noticed.
I read it in 
a Smiths biography, 
it became a little running joke 
at work
and a little later 
it seeded a thought 
in my dense mind.

Since forever 
or at least as long
as I can remember
I have been 
suspecting
life to be a fraction 
of what we are meant to feel. 
There is some deeply rooted frustration 
that stems from the clash of 
the subconscious awareness 
that we can experience 
let's say 
a 100% 
and the marginal outlines 
of the insubstantial senses 
our natural life bestowed on us  
and which allows only 
a mere 5% 
of the whole
to be actually disclosed.
There is a sick kind of restraint 
pressing our face down 
like a foot on the cheek.
Humiliating 
and debasing. 
As wonderful 
and balanced 
and content 
your life may be
it feels like there is something missing.
The incompletion of feeling 
is firmly lodged in its own genesis.
We can not close a circle 
that beyond our reality 
is in fact a continuous line. 
We are corrupted 
by the origins of things.
We aspire a golden dream 
and are dealt a handful of mud 
to fabricate it.

What I'm trying to say is 
that our desires are painted 
in living color.
In vivid 
bright 
textured
layered
and screaming fluorescence. 
Teeming with 
a throbbing radiation.
Hysterical discharges 
of wild and untamable majesty. 

Life 
is a bland pastel at best.
Everything about it reduces 
the ferocity of color 
and involvement 
that we so deeply seek.
Like it immediately 
waters down 
and weakens 
the inward pigments 
of all emotional sacrifice.

That is why everything 
always feels unfulfilling.
Draining even. 
I wouldn't go as far as to say 
that it feels contrary to 
what you hoped it might be. 
But I see how you would be 
inclined to think so. 
It is of a similar disappointment. 
It appears to be of all expense. 
A fatality. 

You are a marvel
well beyond the natural realm.
A vision in itself.
Let's hope you find the strength 
to acknowledge that in time. 
Before we are lost 
and all doused in pastel
and all dead.