Amber

ˈambər/

noun

1. The sunset you watched as a young kid, your legs swinging freely in the evening summer breeze. The ground was much closer then, but the sky was too, and you had no concept of limits.

2. Your best friend's eyes flashing in anger. It was your first fight. But your first make-up as well. Back when friendship was still a light word that slipped easily off your tongue.

3. The ring that disappeared from your mother's finger when you were ten. Love was a concept too big for your child hands to grasp and you let it go with the ease of a helium balloon.

4. The weight of the necklaces around your neck when you turned sixteen. The color of your hair that you took two hours to put into a messy bun. The grace that ebbed and flowed from your fingertips when you thought you could conquer the world.

5. Cigarette stubs that dropped from his hands as you walked into the smoke curling from his lips. Grown up.

6. The life of gold you wished you had, the tint of the memories turned to dust in your over-worked brain.

7. hard translucent fossilized resin produced by extinct coniferous trees of the Tertiary period, typically yellowish in color.

                ~a honey-yellow color typical of amber.

~October