Brookwrite

True to Colors

Are you true to your colors
in everything you do?
Do you deserve your uniform blues
do you live by the golden rule?
So many things make you too unsure
and let you let your colors blur.
It's not easy but it's the way to go
to stay as clear as a new rainbow.

Do you often find your colors
break down to black and white?
Or are there shades of grey mixed in
that you tell yourself are all right?
Do you know how to mix the dyes
of the pallette that's behind your eyes.
Like art you can't learn where each piece lies
but everyone tries until the day we die.

Do you see how time swirls
as you rush through your days?
Do you notice that you're drowned in haze
and there's no light to show you the maze?
You don't see how so much you're so untrue
and how your mouth gives the devil his due.
No one can always avoid telling lies
but the true to his colors is the one who tries.

Written in late 1995.