you wouldn't understand

I can show you the way my transparent tears

swim their way and embellish themselves

onto cream white paper,

but you wouldn't understand.

I can lead you to believe that every letter

gracefully written ends with black

merging into red; as signs of self-harm

transforming into poetry,

but you wouldn't understand.

I can explain to you how the greens, whites, and blues of our environment

are recorded merely as bold letters

typed or written on a white sheet, representing the truly monotonic world we live in

but you wouldn't understand.

-S.Dhar