My Dear Heaven

Photographer - Tobi Brun

My Dear Heaven

Exquisitely wild and free,

With strokes of color that are colliding and converging

Existing in this space, a space far from my reach

You are the embodiment of Heaven

The epitome of goodness

I wish to wear you

Absorbing the blue that allows air to rush into the anxious lungs

Baptizing myself in the white that dresses an angel of light

Immersing myself in the red that draws lovers near

It is intoxicating

Mirroring the person for whom I admire so dearly

Cloaking myself in the imitation of the angel’s yellow joy

Reproducing the wonderous pink that breeds fragility

And I am so entranced

By the spellbinding openness of your tender heart

By the warmth of your touch and the bridge of empathy you build

By the capacity of your forgiveness that allows for the lost to find comfort

And how I yearn for you

In the depths of the evergreen forests that yield only envious green

In the tortuous arms of the warped that leave only the shades black

In the prison of deceit, bribery, and unworthiness

I long for a time

Where the green slips from the tips of my fingers

Draining from my voice

Withdrawing from my memories

And departing from my being

My Dear Heaven,

How I desire to be you.

Jade Khounpraseuth is an emerging fiction writer and is currently an English Education student at the University of North Georgia.