Skip to content

Pale Life

Today I think about how pale I am.

Pale-faced like the ticking round clock on the wall.

Pale in topics, experiences, life lived; carrying essentials but lacking in spice and flavour.

Bleached white, unstained. Not pure. Just bland, waiting; a new canvas of infinite possibilities that fear will ever keep unmarked.

I return again to the words of Doc Luben: “How do we forgive ourselves for all of the things we did not become?”

How do we learn to love our unpainted canvas?

.

June 20, 2025

Published inPoetryFree Verse

Comments

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

The author and site owner can be reached at leeundercedartrees@gmail.com.

All contents copyright their author, except where otherwise specified. No contents may be used without permission.