pink nail polish
By manunkind
A little girl
No worries
Happiness in flurries
A purple anger
Cute and stubborn
Not a notion, of the danger
Palm tree’s sway from side to side
A silvery dream unicorn takes her on a moonlit ride
Oh, for the naïve dealings of a little girl
How fast she wishes to grow,
But there are so many things she does not know
Innocence so real
No deceit or angry voices in her head
She does not know that her future is bleak, an angry red
She cannot see it, feel it, taste it
She is a bright spot amidst the reek
For now she is safe
But soon, she will care so much that she will drown in the pain
Drown in the minds of so many other little girls
Her pretty pink toes, match her pretty pink bows
But soon, nothing will match
Nothing will make sense the way it used too
Nothing will be pink
A swarm of colors will smother her, knocking her unconscious
She dreams in pink, she drinks in pink,
Until it is time to wake up to the ugly blacks and browns and grays
To an endless life, a million days
Every day she climbs into a bed of blacks and dreams of pinks
Everything is so innocent, who wants to think?
An angry roar awakens her
A bright and evil red
Her mother and father
They argue about the blacks and grays, the browns, the endless days
This little girl, all grown up cannot hear the sounds
She must not stay!
She wants to flee the blacks and grays
The infinity of days
To hide away in the pinks to play
But alas, the thing she hurried to grow into must brave the grays
She must hide away the tears at bay
She must become an ice queen
To last the days
As summer descends her hide lies melting
She could not win, not against the grays!
She melts into a pink puddle
No longer the cute little girl
No longer the ice queen, she is the melting queen
Her eyes, once pink give way and become gray
She could not last through the endless days
Although she died in the monotony of black, it is pink her
soul portrays
Comments on "pink nail polish"
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A former member wrote:
Wow, this is awesome! Great concept!
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On Wednesday, February 9, 2005, GraySky
(15) wrote:
Personally, I thought the repetition was awesome. Maybe this wasn't the point, but it made me think of a child saying it, which kind of went along with the whole innocent-pink deal. That's how it sounded to me anyway. Great job!
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On Friday, December 19, 2003, unusual_blood
(74) wrote:
shit, i meant the ice queen. sry i'm polluting your comment area with so many comments. i just can't believe how much talent you've got. first time i read em' i didn't really take the time to see. now i have. SUPERB work
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On Friday, December 19, 2003, unusual_blood
(74) wrote:
i re-read this poem, and i loved the symbols here of the colors, the little girl, the ice cream, and finally the puddle. ironic how we always want to be what we are not. i disagree, i think the repitition worked well
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On Monday, December 8, 2003, Alanarchy
(1168) wrote:
Wow... Just, wow.
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On Saturday, December 6, 2003, Rebel_Angel
(321) wrote:
Very good!
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On Friday, December 5, 2003, unusual_blood
(74) wrote:
WOW awseome job. its delusional saint by the way, i finally figured out the way this thing works! This poem ... i can see the colours. "Until it is time to wake up to the ugly blacks and browns and grays" Great line
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A former member wrote:
I agree with Cre. I really enjoyed the repeating colors. That's probably gonna stick with me for the rest of the night. She dreams in color but her days are black and gray. Lovely.
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On Thursday, December 4, 2003, cre
(410) wrote:
I liked it myself . . I thought the repetition of the colors really drove the point home . . and I found it a creative way to illustrate your point . .nice job.
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On Thursday, December 4, 2003, manunkind
(64) wrote:
thank you! it means alot to me coming from you. i read some of your stuff earlier, i love the "Darkest Places"
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On Thursday, December 4, 2003, Exodus
(172) wrote:
Pink, Grays, Browns, Melting this, melting that, endless days....all said WAY too much...i like the idea though
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On Thursday, December 4, 2003, manunkind
(64) wrote:
that was on purpose.... ahh. but i thought about that when i wrote it... i decided i liked the monotony. it was one of my earlier poems (i started writing them like 3 years ago)