Fade to Black<\/p>\n
“What’s your favorite color?”
\nan early boyfriend asked, perhaps
\nthinking of flowers to match
\nmy favorite, a romantic notion
\nmy truthful answer swiftly
\nnipped in the bud: “Black.”<\/p>\n
Evolving from thrashing punk days,
\nmosh pit rock and grunge days,
\nemo goth days, and finally
\nsoul sustaining blues,
\nblack saw me through my style,
\nmy mood, my life, colorless and fading<\/p>\n
into adult depression and weight gain.
\nNot wishing for pity, I laughed it off,
\npain masked to others that asked why
\nwhen I winked and told them “Don’t you
\nknow black is this fat girl’s friend?”<\/p>\n
The advent of children brought me
\npartially back to life, and black remained
\nmy choice, spills, scrapes, messes
\nall masked by clothes in my forgiving black.<\/p>\n
Healthy again, black still is my favorite,
\nthe color that never fails to fulfill, a friend
\nenfolding me in warm, somewhat threadbare,
\narms, as my life begins the slow winding
\ndown, one day fading to the final, welcoming black.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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