The colors I've learned to see

are muffled by something darker. 

I know the sun remains 

burning without question, 

burning to save us all. 

But when darkness starts to suffocate, 

only my perception 

can illuminate this fact

that just like the sun, darkness, 

is always there 

& my anger makes it bleed over me. 

My calm is a cure 

for dimmed skies & eyes. 

My spirit absorbs sorrow 

& releases it like the rain 

that comes & goes. 

.Laura Curren. 

It's so easy to project the future 

onto someone else, to take their pieces 

& fill them in with your own.

I want to look past 

the fantasies I spread over their 

skin & direct them

into something wider than I know.

I want to project onto 

the mountains & the oceans, 

the vast unknown,

I want to finally see myself. 

.Laura Curren.