My Near Death Experience Arts and Thoughts

By BoJenn

Give Me Color

Living within minimalist walls of plain white décor—

comfortably boring!

Give me instead the colors of the universal rainbow,

to offer life on sad days,

to soothe nights of terror,

to awaken imagination and wonder.

White bread with processed cheese and bologna will do—

but I crave French mustards,

wines that dance from foreign soil,

and cheeses ripened beneath Australian suns.

Give me friendships whose faces

mirror the world’s wide palette—

brown, yellow, red—

to illuminate my own pink freckles.

Let me sip coffee brewed in the warmth of Nigeria,

watching animals live freely, safe from the guns of man.

Let me take tea in an English parlor,

crumpets poised on porcelain plates,

then paint a tattoo across my cheek

in honor of Brazil’s jungled pulse.

Yes—give me diversity!

Lest white tongues of boredom

speak only of schemes and harm

against their shadowed brothers.

I long to sleep beneath brilliant stars,

their light a lullaby of wisdom,

their shimmer a blanket of enlightenment.

My Art

There Must be Colors!