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Watercolor Love

August 17, 2021
By EvanWang25 BRONZE, King Of Prussia, Pennsylvania
EvanWang25 BRONZE, King Of Prussia, Pennsylvania
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Favorite Quote:
Happiness hit her like a train on a track.


my love for you

is as lonely as

graffiti under a bridge,

sprayed on,

yet left alone.

only a mark to show

that you’ve been here,

that you’ve claimed here.

many have attempted

to scrub it off,

as if a sponge and some water

can make it fade away.

everyone has seen this vision of love,

and though it’s sprayed on

with foul intentions,

it is still beautiful

under the bridge

where the creek of forgetting flows

through it’s arch.


The author's comments:

This poem was written during a time where I weirdly found graffiti to be extremely pretty. Of course, since my family lived in the city, they hated it since it often was a form of vandalism. However, I find it to be artistic, chaotic art, perfect insanity. That is what inspired this poem, graffitis under a bridge. It is beautiful in its dying moments, beautiful but no one sees it, beautiful but scorned, as if it is the bridge's fault for wearing such graffiti like a badge of honor.


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on Aug. 18 2021 at 2:34 am
JustMe_Vaanya SILVER, Dehradun, Other
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Favorite Quote:
"Una Vida, I have come to accept that I cant experience everything in life. But what I will, I'll experience deeply..."<br /> -Shivya Nath

This is soo beautifully written! :)