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Red Paint

June 4, 2019
By olivewheadon BRONZE, Encinitas, California
olivewheadon BRONZE, Encinitas, California
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"Time itself is being and all being is time... In essence, everything in the entire universe is intimately linked with each other as moments in time, continuous and separate." -Dogen Zenji



On the walls there is red paint

Imitating blood

In my mind

I think of yours

Falling from our fingertips

After you sliced through your skin.

On my hands there is red paint

Imitating blood

In my mind

I think of mine

When I too

Slit my fingerprint

So ours would match

But now I realize

We are still

Of a different identity.

On the walls there is red paint

Imitating blood

In my mind

I look at my face

Speckled with red

I try to wipe it off

But you are stuck to me

And now your blood

Is in mine.

Your mother asked

Where you found the razor

You did not know

But we did

And instead said

We did not know

She was scared

And we were 

Because now

We share blood

But still

On the walls is red paint

On my hands there is red paint

On my face there is red paint

But in my heart

Is your blood

So I am in love.


The author's comments:

I wrote this piece when I remembered a memory in which my best friend and I wanted to share blood, so at a very young age I believe 7 or 8, we cut open our fingers and pressed them together. We thought this would make us more connected, together one, when really it was incredibly unsanitary and dangerous. I threw in aspects of childhood like secrets, connection, and emotion. I related that memory to my life now. The desire to have that same connection with someone in this life where you are one, yet bonded by emotion. 


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