Janet Brice Parker
Heightened Feelings
Heightened feelings run the gamut from joy to despair.
Elation over church songs, secular music, men, women, the beach,
Depression covers my head like a dirty, old scarf.
Colors become faded and run together like mixed hues create black.
The world doesn’t disappear.
It simply forgets its colors.
And I forget
they were mine to begin with.
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