.../Restoration condt.
Now I see some blues
in the grays
I wonder if they realised
the significance of those grays
which have become
OVERSHADOWED
by the innocent SIMPLICITY
of the blues
and the REDS!
and the YELLOWS!!
and the......
YES!!!!
the sky if full of colors!!!!!
..and opening my wings I will fly
away from the grays that WERE
into the brightness of the moment
because what has been shed
was the covering
I got from them..
Now bring your eyes down
(but don't forget to lift them again)
and look in the trash..
YES! what you see
was once what I lived..
..it WAS my world
..it IS their world
..is it YOUR world?
© Ebele Okoye 2000.
(Exhibition,
Women about Women Goethe Institut, Lagos Nigeria, Jul. 2000)
