Eccentricity

Silvery Silent
Out here in the moonlight
Half light/Night light
When the pity and despair in your eyes
Says a thousand more Words
Than could ever be uttered from your lips

Outside
You’re mercury
Fluid and liquid, but steady
Guarded
While inside you’re violet
Transcendent and flickering
With droplets of every rainbow colour

In the furthest,
Beneath your silver shell,
There is no jeering laughter
If you’re not what they expect you
To be;
But this you cannot show them
For fear that they will smother it
Or snuff it out
With their foolish consistency

Ali Boyd

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