Defiant

I colour

My self-portrait

Black

In-between chores in the house

Disliking these moments

When the mind

Needs a pause

Daily routines

Desires no cause

Life

Prompted by unwarranted order

Or we have failed

Acknowledging these norms

Beaten into me

Discordant

I scratch

My self-portrait

In radiant colour

In-between reading the lines of a fallen shero

Loving these moments of escape

When the mind

Needs a pause

Overruling

The dead and distant orders

Life

Prompted by conventional freedoms

Or we have failed

Embracing these norms

Shaped by me

Truant

I whitewash

My self-portrait

In sepia

In-between now and then

Accepting inevitable change

When the mind

Needs a pause

Assuming

Some kind of daily pace

Life

Prompted by a survivalists realism

Or we have failed

Challenging these norms

I maintain my space

Questioning

By Simone  Naik, 2013-04-28.