Diamond Life

Diamond Life

Empty walls

sparkling white

that which is all colors

entwined and buried

to become bright void

Full past

flat black

that which is all experiences

lived and over

to become an empty present

I sit in my room

with it’s empty walls

and think about my empty life

A passing thought it is

and then I am in my head

it’s full sparkling imagination

with experiences in the midst of happening

My open eyed dreams

are full of life

diamonds bright with love

It is in living

that I am dead flatlined white

against the darkness

My body was not told

I walk along still

entwined and buried

under every day

The yellow rises

the orange sets

one more time

lived and over

my black void

my flat present

I long to be

in the midst of happening

I yearn to experience

a diamond alive                 

January 17, 2002 

Tressa Lee Breen