Hotel #1 - Skylar Dannan

I am a rising sophomore from Cazenovia, New York with an intended biochemistry major. I love all things artsy, especially drawing, music, and poetry! I’m in Pitch Please Acapella here on campus, and lift weights almost daily in my free time. I love writing and thinking romantically and taking inspiration from nature. Something that greatly inspires me to write is my belief that finding beauty in everything and romanticizing life is one of the best ways to stay motivated and stable in our complicated and difficult world. 

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It's too loud in here,

But a strange sense of comfort ceaseless surprises.

Being alone here is almost scary;

walls inverting,

orange;

to white

But there's comfort in the painted haste,

intentionally secret...

There's comfort in the peeling of the lamp shade,

And ghostly curtains innocently offering goodnight kisses...

But mostly there's comfort in the newness of it all,

A new life perfectly suited to the strange old creamsicle walls,

Inverted walls that can't quite seem to figure out their identity, not quite yet...

But I suppose that's why I'm here

I suppose we'll figure it out together

And now, I suppose, I've learned I'll never paint my walls orange

and white.