Thursday, 16 July 2020

My mother's color

In my earlier days,
as the sleepy first ray
touched the wooden shades
in my small bedroom frame.

She would slide with no pull,
her lips drawn in a curve:
"Goood morniiing from
the lark to the blackbird"

That was one other quirk
I could not comprehend
that would bring to me glee
no matter where I'd stand.

Under echoes of thunder
I'd be the one visiting,
her square bright room,
with for furniture a
double bed 'n' a stand.

But the sun exploded
shone its nuclear a core,
and its warm a color:
embraced circular lamps,
dripped along the long drapes,
bounced on the smooth duvet,
poured down the carpet
and swallowed you mellow.

The room has since enlarged

symptoms of a good age
but the color remains
her favorite today.

I still guarantee her sight
gets wrong, blue?, signals
when yellow fills her eyes.
Yet I climb to a nest
when those touches mine.

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