Color Through Spectrums:

You don’t have to feel trapped, you know?

There is freedom outside four walls;

These echoes you speak of

Haunt you and us all.

There may be shadows,

Darkness may be appealing.

It’s serene embrace

And quietness are best for healing.

But life cannot function without

The Sun!

It’s pure essence is energy

Feeding even the darkest ones.

Your dad loved you

He didn’t leave from his will;

My dad left me

For a hoe and some grills.

My brothers blamed me

When I got locked [up] stuck,

They said I tore

My family up.

There were times I’d drink to the moon

Till I passed flat out,

Go to work the next day

And stumbled all about.

Take a hit to the nose

Makes my eyes turn rose,

But through it all

Never lost control.

Sometimes all walls need is

A spit shine and some color,

Colored glass when shown through light

Shimmers in rainbow splendor.

Sometimes at night I hear

My old cell mates talking;

I check behind my back,

Even when I’m just walking.

Out to eat, I sit against walls

Facing the exit;

My back protected ,

And my mind glued to it all.

So you see?

This is hell for everyone

it’s not just you.

It’s what light you choose to look

At life by, what spectrums make it through.

Darkness is everywhere

But in the light,

Dark gives to new hue.

It depends on how you choose to perceive:

Beauty is freedom,

Colors are wonders,

And thoughts become things…

Physics has taught me,

Nothing is as it seems.

You add to that simple chemistry

And Percocet gives you wings!

Red, orange, yellow, green

Blue, indigo, and then violet;

To the beat of song we move along

Techni-color reliant.

You nor I can see beyond viole[n]t

Yet, colors beyond exist.

Dancing through this colored song

Caught up in spectrum bliss.

Uv and x-rays

Are below the visible spectrum.

But if you close your eyes

You can ride the waves

Of heat induced electrons.