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i want to ask you a question

January 30, 2015
By RedPhoenix SILVER, Boone, North Carolina
RedPhoenix SILVER, Boone, North Carolina
8 articles 0 photos 18 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

~Teddy Roosevelt


I want to ask you a question, I guess.

What is it?
Oh. Well.

What… is your favorite color?
You laugh and turn away,
Because it’s a silly question.
But it’s not.
That question – it defines you.
Is it blue, like the sky the breaks your soul?
Or is it green, like the swirling ocean
The ocean that hides your heart.
Yellow? Like the sun that pierces light into your darkness?
Silver, that puts your brokenness together again?
Or maybe it’s red, like the fire that burns inside of you.
Like the fire that breaks you into a million pieces.
Perhaps, even, it is silver and red.
A constant destruction and taping of your soul.
So I’m serious.
What’s your favorite color?
You answer me, and we continue on.

Except
I have another question.
What is important to you?
You answer with a mirror.
But I need more than just a reflection of my words.
You ask, “What do you mean?”

What is important to you?
Is it the hunger that tears and takes the very heart of you,
That longing to learn? That irreplaceable, beautiful hunger?
Is it to hold the simplicity of service in your hands?
To let your heart break for the broken?

Now you are confused.

I hardly even know you.
I know.
That’s why I asked.
How am I supposed to learn about you?
Are we to live on, here, together, as strangers?

We are very different.
You are taught differently. You live differently.
There is nothing wrong with that.

And I’m sorry if I ever forced upon you my life
Tried to make it better than yours.
It’s not.
I’m not better than you.
You are not better than me.
We are simply human, you and I.
What else are we supposed to be.
(that is not a question)

All I want to do is love you.
I don’t care where you come from
I don’t care what you have done
You and I
We are the same.
I know we live in a world that forces upon us the idea of being unique,
And don’t worry, we are.
But we are not so unique that our differences separate us.

That would be awful,
And,
Quite frankly,
Stupid.

Can I tell you my heart?

I don’t want to be afraid of you.
I don’t want to hide in my own clique, ignoring your existence.
I don’t want to smile and wave and tell you it’s good to see you
When I sometimes forget your name.
I want to be there for you when the world falls down.
I want you and I to pick ourselves up together.
I want us to be there for each other.
Together.

We can be different and unique.
We will eventually go our different ways
Maybe you’ll even forget my name.

But we can be different and unique
We can go our different ways
We can forget my name
And we can do it together.

So, I’m serious.
What is your favorite color?
 



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on Feb. 19 2015 at 6:17 pm
lastingbreath16 DIAMOND, Lake Alfred, Florida
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Favorite Quote:
screw it all if life gives u lemons do what ever you feel the need to do with them.

Your welcome! All of what i said is true!

on Feb. 19 2015 at 2:34 pm
RedPhoenix SILVER, Boone, North Carolina
8 articles 0 photos 18 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

~Teddy Roosevelt

Thank you soo much! You have no idea how much that means to me!

on Feb. 19 2015 at 7:41 am
lastingbreath16 DIAMOND, Lake Alfred, Florida
54 articles 3 photos 70 comments

Favorite Quote:
screw it all if life gives u lemons do what ever you feel the need to do with them.

That was just... That is becoming one of my favorites the emotions it holds the meaning inside of it... That was so amazing i enjoyed reading ever moment of it!!!

on Feb. 12 2015 at 6:51 pm
RedPhoenix SILVER, Boone, North Carolina
8 articles 0 photos 18 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

~Teddy Roosevelt

Thanks so much!

on Feb. 12 2015 at 6:50 pm
RedPhoenix SILVER, Boone, North Carolina
8 articles 0 photos 18 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

~Teddy Roosevelt

Thank you!!

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on Feb. 12 2015 at 12:21 pm
Ana143 GOLD, Bolivar, Ohio
17 articles 4 photos 64 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Your always beautiful in my eyes"
"Be who you are not what someone else wants you to be"

It was a very good and unique. I like it a lot!

on Feb. 10 2015 at 5:37 am
HappyEmeal GOLD, Lahore, Other
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Favorite Quote:
When life knocks you down, Dhuzzz! Just puzza back up!!!

it's pretty cool. I like the concept.