you bitch!

Dear dark side,

Why are you so dark?

Why are you so hard to see through?

Why must you be so fucking scary?

The pitch-blackness is off-putting.

Be more transparent,

please.

Dear bright side,

You're no better.

You are just as blinding.

It hurts their eyes, your fakeness.

The glare is dreadfully intense.

Tone it down,

k, thanks.

Why not green

or perhaps purple.

Or orange;

deep and bright

and perfectly unique.

No extremes,

no black or white

Not even gray.

Bleh, who likes gray anyway?

Dear You-

Be bold and beautiful

and fearlessly vibrant.

Dear dark side,

Dear light side-

you are both

hereby dismissed.

** This poem was recently published in George Mason University's literary magazine, Volition (2010).