Didn’t realize I was being poisoned
Until I was away from the intoxicant
Didn’t realize color had gone from the world
Until the black and white left
I’m me again.
I’m happy again.
I clung to you to medicate
Sorrows that you had caused.
I wrapped myself in a cold, damp blanket
Clinging to it ever more tightly for warmth
But around me was a ferociously Sunny day
That I had ignored
THE CLOSET MYSTIC 