Coloring Book

Coloring Book

The blank pages lying before you

Staring at them, opening the old,

Dusty box of colored pencils

That has been sitting on your nightstand

Since the day you were born

You take the first in hand

You color the beginnings of dismay

Turning all murky and dark

A black shadow, taking over the page

Then, you grab realization

Coloring a golden lining to your dismay

Spreading, lightening your page

Then, you grab lust

Coloring a perfect fuchsia pentagon

Ruling out reason

Then, love comes

With deep red circles

Like cheeks in the depth of winter

Then, envy

A green sea sweeps around the love

Never ceasing, deepening as it goes

Then trust arrives

A blue boat sails the deep envy

Splitting it apart like firewood

Then serenity

Brown, relaxed, earthy

But suddenly, anger

Springs from the calm like

Fresh spring flowers

Attacking the page with blotted orange

But then, happiness

Slowly begins to erase the anger

Your page is full

You place the pencils back in the case

That will remain on your nightstand

Until the day you die