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Black and White

An old man once said, "Being in love is like the color TV, once you have it you never want to go back to Black and White"

This sounds too beautiful to be wrong

But too foreign to me to be right

So here I sit,

Remote in hand

Studying each channel I see

Looking for a hint of color

 

Does it happen all at once?

Or seep in through the corners?

Or a scene at a time?

 

Sometimes I think I see some color

Coming into the frame

But as soon as I think it

It’s gone before my eyes

Just a trick of the light

Back to that old black and white

 

Is that a new costar?

To colorize my life?

As soon as I see him

He’s gone

And I’m back to black and white

 

It’s too beautiful to be wrong

To unknown to be right

But when

Oh when

Will I have color in my life?

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