When was it that color FLED
When vibrant beauty softly BLED
When rain FELL and heaven cracked
Here barren lands twist unmapped

YOU LET IT IN to rage and seethe
I HID and couldn’t move or breathe

PROMISES of star-strewn wonder
Behind that curtain just LIES thunder
The once bright mural’s faded gloss
Where were you when color was LOST
Where were you when color was

Icarus soars sunwards
Fly youthful hubris
A fool’s lament for
spent sands so ruthless

A shade past apogee
Still burning bright -
not yet succumbed
to gravity’s fight

Time’s shrewd eye
twinkles with glee
Streak o’er the horizon
still unable to see

Perilous predicament
for the prodigal son
Dawning too late
Impact in three two one

Spearing morning gloom
over mist clung forest slopes
Rose light kisses your skin

Sparrows flit chittering
among arches of umber and gold
Heavens powdered sapphire

Break your cage
with a warm wildflower breeze
Begin your day anew