Shades of Gray
Let me in. Don’t let me in.
Door after door, opening,
leading ever deeper.
Questions within questions.
The light in your eyes
telling me to enter,
yet offering no answers.
Shadows, hints, that tell nothing,
yet say everything about you.
All of this leading nowhere.
Nothing, but the next,
and the next, each time
leaving little to hold onto
but shades of gray.
This is my response to Thursday Photo Prompt: Open #writephoto
at Sue Vincent’s Daily Echo, with her photo.
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Not easy to know the heart of someone who keeps the doors closed and the blinds down… Beautifully done, Ken.
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Thank you, Sue.
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A pleasure, Ken.
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The sense of there being no finality that we can envision, but that of always traveling. And Is there a final door? My mind can’t take it in. I love this poem.
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Thank you, Claudia. Sometimes we wander aimlessly, even when we realize our efforts are taking us nowhere.
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Great atmosphere with lots of tension. (K)
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Thank you. The two-sided coin of resolution.
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Love how your poem captures the agony of mixed messages. Shades of gray indeed!
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Thank you. Yes, how to understand what’s not being said.
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This is wonderfully deep and intense ❤️ it puts me in the mind of complicated love and relationships.
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Thank you. Yet we do make it work, at times.
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A wonderful take on the photo (which I find so intriguing).
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Thanks, Merril. Looking at the photo, I asked myself what would be beyond the final door, and is it possible to know.
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Good questions, even if there are no answers.
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Thanks for sharing, Sue.
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Reblogged this on anita dawes and jaye marie.
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Thank you for sharing. 😀
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well written
colorful
relations 🙂
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Those shade of grey will lead to nowhere. Good response to the photo prompt.
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It certainly seems that way, at times.
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Ah, but isn’t that what keeps the interest alive??
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To a point. 😉
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Thanks for sharing this fine piece! Excellent write. Love the b&w image! See you in a couple weeks Ken. In honor of Solli Raphael: A Smidgen of Thought
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Thanks, Rob.
Till then!
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With so many layers of shadows I would wonder too… Like asking and never receiving a yes or a no
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Exactly!
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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Thank you for sharing.
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Great writing should be shared!!!
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Some people, some situations can be so ambiguous. You really captured the feeling here…like traveling in circles of wasted energy looking for answers that never appear. A frustrating feeling.
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Thank you. Yes, like wasted energy.
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