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It is the shadows within us
-the dark hidden interior of our souls-

black is the ancient color of our history,
the great originator from which
all other color and light
came forth.

it dwells in the silence of caves
and beneath the fertile fields
of the earth.

it stretches itself into darkness
and lays latent with secret, inner beauty.

darkness is the Withholder of presence;
denying that which our eyes long to se…

the earth is alive with secret, inner frequencies.

nothing is ever still;
stillness is but a figment of the mind -
a brief yet imagined respite from the pulsating world around us.

painters learn the language of color slowly.
unnoticed miracles appear within the slightest [shift]
of the light;
suddenly the language of the land
comes fluently.

we dwell here; suspended somewhere between the air and the earth;
where light and col…