I'll be your gallery

Let your colours fall true

Show me all the ways you bleed,

let the drops fall upon my canvas,

and I will let your colours fall true.

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I won’t try to blend them into mine,

or turn them into a painting

I need to understand.

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Instead, I will watch your art unfold,

trying to feel what the colours teach me,

without asking for their meaning.

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I’ll be the gallery for the things

nobody else catches in your silence,

the place you can rest the stories

that do not want to be translated.

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You can write upon my pages,

and let the words

find their own becoming.

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My name is Mara, and my publication Organised Overthinking is part poetry, part observation, part “I should probably have kept that thought to myself.” Making eye contact with the human condition and then writing about it. If that sounds like something you would enjoy, I would love it if you would consider subscribing.

If you would like to fund my coffee addiction and my poetry :)