Life Colours

Decades decay

Only remnants remain

Rust resists

Orange rots to brown.

Still, babies are born

When the sun shines yellow

Or under shades of midnight blue

As lovers jostle everything but touch aside

               for an indigo moment.

Grass and children grow tall

Life colours expand to red

White divides, becomes

A faint rainbow that explodes

 Inverts to grey.          .

Charcoal edges the space when children leave                       

Friends and painters die

                                  (or you do)

Then decades decay

And remnants remain

Orange to brown,  again.

I remember, rich fuschia pink

I wonder why I did not like pink.

Quiller Irvine.