From White to Grey to Black
Time consists of many colors.
From the beginning of life everything is coated in the
purity of white as we progress through early childhood.
Then, during the next stage of our lives we play out a variety
of colorful events. Some in vibrant colors of orange
and red as we pass through the processes associated with
falling in love and experiencing feelings so deep and painful
that we can’t describe them.
∞
Then comes colors of green and blue associated
with events of disappointment and the realization
that love does not shelter us from all of life’s
ugliness nor the separation associated with
broken, never to be fixed, relationships.
∞
Unfortunately, the blue then turns to a dark
shade of purple as calls to our children go unanswered
and we realize that their lives are as complex as ours once
were as they deal with raising children and jobs that
seem to provide little more than a paycheck.
∞
The next stage turns our world and our hair to a shade
of grey as loneliness and the loss of loved ones
becomes the focal point of our existence and we spend
endless hours sending sympathy cards and attending
the numerous funerals for those that we once knew and loved
∞
Finally, we must cope with diminishing memories and
feeble and unresponsive limbs that once ran with the wind
as a child and danced through the night as a young adult.
On a good day the mind can still slay dragons when called upon…
until that fateful day that the grey begins to darken and slumber
beckons bringing forth visions of what lies beyond and eventually
the blackness and release of eternal sleep.
Epilogue
Life may sometimes seem as I have described above
when viewed in its entirety. However, intermingled
between each of the stages of the colors above from
white, to red, to blue, to purple, to grey and finally to black
are brief periods of glorious sunshine providing a golden
yellow cast to life that is so full of happiness and joy that
it transcends all things and carries us ever onward
©Copyright Charlie Gragg, November 16, 2010
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