Color

The sky is gray and quiet
The sorrow still impeding
The world is still and silent
Like every day preceding

The food is dull and tasteless
The sounds are strained and weary
The shapes are dark and formless
The eyes are tired and bleary

No hope or faith dwell in this place
For they are tinted yellow
No dark red love, No purple joy
No blue or greenish mellow

No orange excitement, No gold allure
No sky blue thoughts of truth
Not even brown of steady work
or pastel shades of youth

Regard my friend, with darkened eyes
the world that now abides
where want will flourish and life will die
where color does not reside

So hold on to the blue, my friend
the color of the sea
and hold on to the purple
for a life thats filled with glee

Hold on to the red for love
and stay focused on the gold
and hold on to the yellow
for the hope the world may hold