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bravenak

(34,648 posts)
Fri Nov 21, 2014, 06:46 PM Nov 2014

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I never noticed this group until recently. I am in the process of getting together a collection and am adding more works to it. I wanted to share this one.


I had always wondered
what it would be like to
be someone else.
When I was little,
I would close my lids
Slip into the skin of another,
see the world through
a different pair of eyes.
Feel what they feel,
taste their mouth in mine,


See if they see colors the same.
You know?
Like,
What does blue look like to you?


I asked a man who was colorblind.
But he was high at the time.
And,
I never make sense, so
I left it alone. Though,
he did let me know
that,


Colors do not look the same.
Shame.


After that,
I never did wonder what it would be like
to be someone else.
You know?
Because,
what would I do if I lost the color blue?

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Blue [View all] bravenak Nov 2014 OP
This is probably the group with the least traffic! I wander through here now and then... CaliforniaPeggy Nov 2014 #1
Thank you. bravenak Nov 2014 #2
You're very welcome! CaliforniaPeggy Nov 2014 #3
You are right about that. bravenak Nov 2014 #4
::Snap snap snap:: byronius Nov 2014 #5
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