# poem -- RHYMES WITH PURPLE (3Jan. 2008)

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**Category:** Creative Writing
**Created:** [January 13, 2008, 7:22am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/poem-rhymes-with-purple-3jan-2008/19574 "2008-01-13T07:22:04Z")
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the mind of the depressed  
holds up an umbrella  
beneath the sunniest  
of cloudlessly bright blue skies

to invite the rain inside  
and insist it pour and pour and pour  
while the third eye turned inward

–believing itself undeserving of such warmth–  
blinds itself to the rainbow

smiling on the outside