Color of Love (a challenge)

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Tara Simms
Senior Member

since 1999-08-12

Posts 1244
Honea Path, SC USA

0 posted 1999-09-01 10:11 PM

Color of Love

Your hand glows, held in mine
Black upon white.
Opposites to an untrained eye,
My day to your night.

I can lose myself forever
In your chocolate eyes
Pools of liquid velvet
So knowing and so wise.

A heart so kind and caring
Has been placed into my hands
I hold onto it fiercely
As your soul demands.

You’ve filled the void and longing
In my empty soul.
You’ve brought joy into my life,
Love has made me whole.

My heart wants to sing your praises,
My voice wants to yell.
You’ve taken me to heaven
And saved me from my hell.

There’s a bounce in my step
As we walk down the street
I smile and nod my head
To the friends we meet.

I see judgement in their faces
Disdain in their glance
Our friends and family shun us
They won’t give us a chance.

They can’t see past the surface
Only the color of skin, that’s not right.
Why can’t they look and just see love?
Let’s drain the color from black and white.

hoot_owl_rn
Member Patricius

since 1999-07-05

Posts 10750
Glen Hope, PA USA

1 posted 1999-09-01 10:18 PM

Beautifully done...love knows no such bounds as color and race. Love sees all in only shades of grey.

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"Nobody has measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold" ~Zelda Fitzgerald

WhtDove
Member Rara Avis

since 1999-07-22

Posts 9245
Illinois

2 posted 1999-09-01 10:31 PM

I thought this was quite touching! Well done! Wish everyone could look past the outside and take a moment to see the inside!

PhaerieChild
Senior Member

since 1999-08-30

Posts 1787
Aloha, Oregon

3 posted 1999-09-02 01:54 AM

Tara
All I can say is IT'S BEAUTIFUL!!

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Words lay dormant in the recesses of the mind til called forth to a labor of love. By WildChild

Lucie
Senior Member

since 1999-06-20

Posts 1077
Houston

4 posted 1999-09-02 12:28 PM

Tara, it seems that to us, our challenge is life and making a difference.

After I wrote my challenge, I read yours, they are sort of entertwined I think.

Beautifully done.

Poet deVine

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-26

Posts 22612
Hurricane Alley

5 posted 1999-09-02 12:46 PM

This is a wonderful poem about love that truly is blind! If everyone would just teach their children not to look at the 'outside' of a person, the world would be a better place!

Tara Simms
Senior Member

since 1999-08-12

Posts 1244
Honea Path, SC USA

6 posted 1999-09-02 03:52 PM

Thank you everyone! It's sad that we are approaching the millenium, and yet there is still so much discrimination in the world around us. I wish everyone would stop LOOKING at the color of our skin and just SEE us for who we are.

Balladeer

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-05

Posts 25505
Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA

7 posted 1999-09-02 05:13 PM

I'm afraid we won't see it in our lifetime but the day WILL come.....thank you, Tara.

DreamEvil
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since 1999-06-22

Posts 2396

8 posted 1999-09-02 07:18 PM

Very beautiful verse you have created for us to enjoy, thank you dear Lady.

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Life is pain is poetry, at least I'll be productive.
DreamEvil©

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
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9 posted 2004-04-16 11:36 PM

very good piece....great message

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