Amber Mercer is a member of All Things Poetic, Artistic, Philosophical, Artrageous RB Artists - Self Portrait Gallery, Feminine Intent (LIMIT TWO IMAGES PER DAY), Finks of Inks, Freedom to Shine, Just Rainbows, Live, Love, Dream: , Paintings From Beginners, Pets and People, Self as Other, Students and Beginners, Symbolism in Art and Voices of the Dark and the Deep.
Finally floating… / This will be my baptism / I will dive through my water window
Does the sun really belong in the heavens? / or in a dark sealed box labelled “SPECIAL” ?
Leaving powder patterns on the glass, / pink and white feathers in the air, / and wet rivers on my cheeks.
I will let the sun set behind my terrain. / Hopfully to wake with sweeping meadows in the morning.
I am lost in a world which never found me Falling from a sky that never held me and drowning in a sea too shallow to consume me.
Sometimes our roots which are supposed to hold us firmly in place, / dont have the power to hold us down. / We pull, twist and tug, / looking for a way free…. / to the point where our roots ar…