COLORED EMOTIONS By JMD

Everywhere I go, I paint and I try to leave a mark
Whether it is on sand or a tree’s bark

I want my life to be as colorful as a thousand rainbows
But once I paint, the wrong color shows

 When I’m angry, red is the color
 But what shows is entirely another

When I’m confused I paint with gray
 But gray never shows in any way

I paint with black when I’m sad
The color that shows is for when I’m glad

I stop and for a while, I think
I paint again and out comes pink

And then I paint with the color of my very soul
The color that shows wasn’t my goal

Then I paint with the color of the soil, brown
But what I saw made me, in confusion, frown

It was then I realized something and I turned around
Beautiful was what my eyes had found

Colors flew everywhere
There wasn’t a place that was bare

Although the colors weren’t in the exact place I wanted
I realized that you shouldn’t take anything for granted 

Beautiful was what my eyes had found
I realized then that I’ll never turn back around