I am someone who confuses boundaries
between black and white
between lover and friend.

I, was
Sharp-tongued
determined to define
my world in clarified hues.

Then I met you.

I, became
red-handed
guilty of painting,
blurry portraits of our love.

Me, the sun,
round-cheeked and laughing.

You, my blue, blue moon.

I beame,
syrup of the stars
pour myself
onto you.

I stumbled,
tripping on questions,
others left behind:

“Where do I end
And you begin?”

One day,
white bone
powder coughs,
that hacked my throat away.

You were gone,
and I had sucked you dry.

I was,
lost
swirling in a storm
of ten shades of grey.

Jana Carrey
March 27, 2004

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