When all the colors
vanish from the palette,
do you feel
a sudden insecurity?
Why does the absence of colors
turn into gray—
a mixture of light and darkness—
instead of the deep blackness
of darkness?
When gray catches your eye,
do you feel helpless,
asking:
“what next, what next?”
Does that color
carry a smell,
a taste?
Could blood
have smeared on it,
or tears
been dissolved within?
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Melin Nova
Melin Nova is a writer, poet, translator, and editor from India, with published works in poetry, translation, and literary magazines.
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