Forgetting

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From <b>'What if I could turn the world purple?'</b> <span class ='opening'>FORGETTING</span> by <b>Mel Frances</b> [[Play]]

we are so used to the greens and the blues to the red of dirt, to the grey of dust there is a moment the world turns purple it isn't the first time millenia ago before leaves were green, before the chorophyll everything was purple [[before]]

the day the world turns purple buds blink open slowly, as though just remembering they can feel an old version of themselves like a [[layer]] just underneath the surface of their skin

then we catch ourselves thinking, questioning, laughing in ways we believed [[forgotten]]

when the world turns purple, the leaves remember a version of themselves they used to be

the layer underneath the surface remnants of ways once thought fragments of ideas once held strong opinions that now seem to come from nowhere the tallest room in a house has remained while all the rest has fallen away sometimes we feel we have [[changed]]

my breath catches at a song the notes in my throat my chest full as i hold it i feel an urge to dance hips moving in a dark room then salt is in my nostrils the waves are winding me i am drinking beer in a pub on the seafront and feel a bit tipsy for the first time i feel brash and brave and anything is possible i am not scared there is fire and the fire is inside me making me angry turning my fury to fuel and my fuel to fury my breath catches the selves i have [[forgotten->end]]

then we catch ourselves thinking, questioning, laughing in ways we believed forgotten invitations to return ours to [[accept]] or [[reject]]

when the world turns purple, the leaves remember a version of themselves they used to be

there is a moment where the world is purple farms are fields of lilac seas a deep plum trees sway violet and indigo bricks, blocks of lavender it takes a while for our [[eyes to adjust]]