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Colors of the Soul
Everything was a color;
But not the normal pretty kind,
This was no rainbow.
I felt as ill as a blue balloon at times,
My heart could just pop.
My emotions were soggy and damp,
Almost like the rainy deadly seastorm,
Sometimes I was numb,
But I knew,
I was just gushing out air and love,
From where it mattered.
My soul was never bright anymore,
Happiness was often confused sadness
Always the same shade of dark.
I was no longer full of helium;
Always just a deflated balloon.

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