🖍 We are Crayons 🖍

Like a box of crayons,
We come in many shades, and
in many different colors,
Shades and skintones, we
Precede one another.
We have the reds, and
the Oranges galore,
and the rest of the colors,
that we certainly do adore.
We are like crayons,
We start off as perfect, but
When we're worned down,
We are tattered and broken,
We are still useful, although
our essence had faded,
We're used less and less, and
We start to feel degraded,
We are like these crayons,
We are still around, but
Our purpose becomes useless,
as we are dwindling on down!!!


B.R.
Date: 11/9/2024

Reviews

[Green]

Practically speaking, of course something like a crayon is used less and less as it begins to literally be less and less. There's still a lot of things you can do with even stubs of crayons (especially depending on if it's a bougie crayon or crayola) but you do slowly become more limited. There is also an argument for, if it's a color you really like, as you get less of the crayon to work with, saving it for special occasions and not using it for everything anymore. Speaking from the perspective of the symbolism here, however, it just felt a little doom and gloom in a kind of unexpected way. It was such a fun (and colorful) analogy to be making and then it turned into 'you get old and used up by the world and nobody cares anymore' which seemed like a rather harsh take to me. Hopefully more people feel like the treasured/well loved art supply and not the stub that rolls under the couch and gets forgotten.