I wrote this in June....first chance I've had to publish
MONOCHROME
Monochrome
Drab
Shades of gray
Until I die
No colors
It’s hard to live
In a world
Without color
Too much color
Has been
DANGEROUS
To me
In the past.
I like dangerous
I LOVE color
Always have
Everyone says
I shouldn’t.
So I guess
I’ll have to
Get used to
Monochrome
Drab
Shades of gray
Until I die.
I like this unique take on what aging does to our perception, going from the fiery hot emotions of youth and dangerous risk-taking, to the rather drab and dull endless days of boring routine and fending off growing infirmity leading to the inevitable… Perhaps that's why some people, like Ernest Hemingway, cut it short.
Like my uncle, 101, said recently, “Nurse, please bring me the bucket. I want to kick it.” He got his wish last week.
Questions, unquestioned discoveries, and answers in parable and rhyme…. This collection records a journey starting with a 1960s retrospective and the first man on the moon, moving to a new millennium welcomed in with a terrorist spin, family crises,
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Like my uncle, 101, said recently, “Nurse, please bring me the bucket. I want to kick it.” He got his wish last week.
Ron