A Dandelion Achievement
I remind you what the dandelions told me:
don’t be happy, they said
be content instead
why smile when flatline lips looks so good on you
when other hearts shudder and thud
yours is still
but I still hear you begging
better make me, make me better, medicate me
make it last
time will scar me
and the sun only shines half a day
it’s best to try
try to be happy
to smile through it all
to relish in hunger
to moan as you loath
to indulge in the terror
the bleeding and belting
I remind you
to water them
but tell you they are weeds
Positive space is the thing itself, and negative space is the lack of the thing, or what’s around it. On the left, you can see that the “Hi” is written using negative space, because the color exists all around it, but the letters themselves are empty. On the right, the “Hi” is an example of positive space, because it is the thing itself (by contrast, the white all around it is negative space).
