Despair

expectedly, you must use black
when you paint despair
it is its color

darkness,
eyes closed and tears
coming out like drops of rain
from your cloudy
eyes

but you cannot be
restrained to the strictures of
conformity

society is raged
hurt and ravaged

oh my! you use
the color
red

they know what you mean
red is the color
of war

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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