This month’s challenge is to write something beginning with “My favorite colour tastes like…”
Today’s writing comes to us from Cathy MacKenzie. Her most recent publication, BETWEEN THESE PAGES, is a compilation of 18 short stories. The book is available on Amazon and Smashwords.
My Favourite Colour
.
My favourite colour tastes like death and demise,
the evil that lingers behind the light at night
.
It’s the dark in the day and shades of grey
of living and dying
.
It’s hard and firm, chokes one up
and leaves a film upon one’s tongue
that lashes out at all in sight
.
It’s the soiled, the wicked,
the disastrous, the disgraceful,
the dishonourable
.
It’s grim and hopeless, angry,
illegal and sinister,
the Devil in all of us
.
It’s the dank in the darkness,
the smell of skunk and
spiders, dead and alive
.
It’s a pelt marred by a steak of white
like lightning rushing through the night
to wake the dead
.
It’s six feet under in a rotten pine box
so cheaply made, disintegrating
and disappearing to dust
.
It’s the bits that fly in the air
when a body sleeps
and stirs to shake off the fallen unknown
.
It’s morning before the sun
when dusk still prevails
and eyes can’t adjust to the slew
of shadows swarming by
.
It’s when dawn tries to open its eyes
and yawns a morning sigh
and awakens those
who dream of nightmares
.
Its name is known and it’s the doom,
the evil that takes over the good—
Satan in the garden
who spews and stills the world
.
I’ll come for you when your time is due
and you can’t stop the pitch,
the coal, the burning coal,
or the enemy who seeks to destroy
.
You must wait for day to wake
to brush away the cold
.
My name is Black
and I may leave,
but I’ll be back.
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The Spot Writers – our members:
RC Bonitz
Val Muller
Catherine A. MacKenzie
http://writingwicket.wordpress.com/wicker-chitter/
Melinda Elmore
http://www.authormelindaelmore.blogspot.com/
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