Bejeweled
“Best believe I'm still bejeweled, when I walk in the room I can still make the whole place shimmer”
“Diamonds in my eyes, I polish up real, I polish up real nice”
“What's a girl gonna do, a diamond's gotta shine”
“And we danced all night, and you can try to change my mind”
“Sapphire tears on my face, sadness became my whole sky”
the sky as the whole of feeling
“Sapphire tears on my face, sadness became my whole sky”
“The sky is opalite” — Opalite
Helen connects Bejeweled's 'sadness became my whole sky' with Opalite's 'the sky is opalite': two moments where the sky stops being a backdrop and becomes the entire field of feeling. In Bejeweled sadness floods it sapphire-dark; in Opalite the same totalising sky settles into something iridescent and unsettled, the weather of the heart written across the whole of it.
gem-coloured grief, before and after
“Sapphire tears on my face / Sadness became my whole sky”
“But now, the sky is opalite” — Opalite
Surfaced via community discussion as before-and-after twins: Bejeweled's sapphire tears and a sky overtaken by sadness give way to Opalite's man-made gemstone sky of settled happiness. Both reach for jewels to colour an emotional state - the palette shifts from sapphire-and-moonstone grief to opalite calm.