Cloudy Thoughts

Invisible Children

Blades of Grass.

Single Yellow Grass hidden invisible in a field of green life.

Staring at the ocean of green that enveloped this world would do nothing to satisfy your knowledge of this place. Like a child trying to understand how a movie is created by just looking at the trailer, only the surface of this body of life would be evident in your gaze. I am a shadow that hides behind the shifting waves of green, controlled only by the whim of the sifting air. A hidden yellow stain that is the only evidence of those left behind.

When I was pure and just emerging into life, I was full of expectant hope and wonder at all that surrounded me. I carried myself freely in the wind, drifting in the sea of vibrant green, not noticing anything but embracing everything. My only thoughts were to go vibrant and green like those that surrounded me.

That really was the only chance for me to grow.

I lost it when I lost everything and was stolen away. By the whim of a greater life than me, I was pulled from the earth and cast into a sea of enemies. From the warm embrace of my fellows I entered the cold shackles of those I did not know, and as the shackles turned to warmth, I was stained by their deceptive embrace. When lightning came and cried in fear and to avoid death I was tainted there. I swallowed my pride and with it came fear, fear of the unknown, the new, it all scared.

Patches of hope remained in me, like little lights scattered from the sun that used to reach me. Now all there really is are these dwindling spots that run dry like blood, yet staining my skin only yellow...and now I am quiet, a still thought waiting for nothing. For the me I was is gone and beyond my shattered home lies only me ruled by anger and fear.

So for the anything that is left in me from what I was, let it wait until someone comes, for that is the only thing that will set me free from these shackles that chain and bind me to my masters, like those clouds trapped in the sky today, for they are freed only for a time whenever who they are falls, smacking hard as it hits the ground.