There is a world that no one knows Where life unnoticed grows and thrives Where birth and death and all between Are scrutinised, yet are unseen
Where innocence and purity In white are welcomed, full of hope Impinging slowly, edging in Life’s colour forming character
Where independent yellow gloats In fierce teen triumph ‘Look at me!”
With fun and laughter orange glows And reaches high in happiness Experience and independence Rich lessons teach and edges darken
Their lives on show, rough judgement falls And ‘I prefer the red’ is thrown About and listened to and felt And colours deepen, darkened hue
In wind and rain and sunshine showers Red develops, life impinges Bright happiness or blood-red wisdom Growing older, growing wiser
Where petals turning in reveal Quiet pom-pom introversion While out-turned fingers stretch with glee Prima donnas, dancing, twirling
Where purple self-awareness turns Each pink and mauve and lilac from The bloom of youth towards life’s wane Yet far enough away, rebelling
Where days grow shorter, sliding past Yet hands stretch out and cup each face And noses breathe and fingers touch And bees buzz past and voices rise And babies cry and old men laugh And yet unknown, unseen, life slows
Bright-eyed the purple-rinse brigade With sparkle-induced energy Remembering and reminiscing Their days they fill with endless chatter
Late Autumn falls and nights draw near White heads do droop and slip, like snow Fine petals drift into the breeze An echo whispering til Spring.