Koi fish swim inside
the pond of my mind
nibbling at the edges of my dreams
distorting the colors
from yellow, green, and blue,
to black, orange, and white
Often times
they forget to add the splashes of orange
creating dreams of black and white
the colorless images playing as a movie
and I simply an onlooker
The black and white
bleeds into my reality
sucking the living color from my vision
The koi of my mind
refuse to restore the color to my reality
for only under one condition will they return what is mine:
I release them from the cage of my cognizance
But truly
it is a dilemma
for I cannot live
without them.