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Stage Lights

July 13, 2023
By elizaelanor SILVER, Tampa, Florida
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elizaelanor SILVER, Tampa, Florida
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Favorite Quote:
"Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something." (from The Princess Bride movie)

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Fractures of color,

cold floor, low evenings,

stage lights carry memories of what was

and what will never be,

futures lost and turned to dust before they could live,

 

Stage colors, broken light,

it shines like shattered glass on the floor,

glitters as though through a prism,

 

Blocks of rainbow reflect and

rebound off the curved walls of thought,

rebound in the silence you made thinking

much too far into what no longer will be.

Photo by Jakob Owens on Unsplash

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