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Grey - poem



The girl was grey

Not the fifty shades of grey kind


A storm cloud, thunder without lightning and  lightning without thunder

She listened to instrumentals instead of lyrics to channel her inner poetry she would never write

She’d get high and talk about it all the time

She wouldn’t listen to that artist - they were too ‘mainstream’


She’d say she hates men but she did everything to get his attention

But desperation was her favourite scent so it didn’t matter if she reeked of it.


She got a boyfriend - she thought that would fix it

She would reference him like an overused citation

Constantly trying to meet the word count of a never-ending essay

Filling in the gaps between herself and everything else

Her relationship- low budget like the films she loved to watch and rate


Grey, a cheap landlord painting over the cracks of a borrowed personality

How edgy, funny but not really


And red just wasn’t her colour

She could try and be every colour of the rainbow but all she would ever be was grey.



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