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# the colour thief
- URL: https://thedreampedlar.com/the-colour-thief/
- Published: 2014-06-17T04:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-08-06T23:14:05.000Z
- Author: Anitha Krishnan
- Tags: poetry

Hey fire-breather, my arm’s length lover  
I’ve danced around you in ecstasy for a billion years,  
Never straying too far  
Nor getting any closer

All day long you cast on me your roving eye  
Come twilight  
You rob me off all my colours  
And splash them on to the sunset sky

When dusk gathers at the horizon  
You escape into your temporary grave  
Robber by day, fugitive by night  
(What an unusual thief you are!)

But when you are gone, all I see in myself  
Is an unfathomable blackness  
I could be a rock or a ravine, there’s no way to tell  
There is only an empty nothingness

Until you pull away the sable blanket  
And say *peekaboo*  
You spill your light on me, I blush in polychrome  
And I wake up beautiful once more.