Colours

COLORS

I don't like the color blue

It reminds me of you

Your blue jeans and your shirts

I still have a few

That I hold close when I sleep

Trying not to weep

I breathe in your scent

And pretend you never went

And I don't like green

It's the color of every scene

Of you working on the land

Working with your hands

You tended and you pruned

You planted and you groomed

You were one with the green

Placing colors in between

And brown makes me cry

It's the color of your eyes

And the hair against your cheek

The way it curled made me weak

I still see you everywhere

Then realize you're not there

And I don't like brown

Because now you're not around

I recall a day at the beach

The waves crashing within reach

I wore a lemon dress

Laughing without stress

We picnicked on the sand

Time more perfect than we'd planned

The day so warm and mellow

But now, I don't like yellow

All colors make me grieve

But red's the worst I perceive

I was wearing muted red

The day you stayed in bed

When your illness won the day

I held you as you slipped away

The loss  filled me with dread

And I hate the color red

So I live my life in grey

It is the only way

To work and then come home

To get through night and day

Don't see any rainbow shade

Nor white or black

I just see grey, simply grey

Because you're never coming back

I don't like the color blue

It reminds me of you

Your blue jeans and your shirts

I still have a few

That I hold close when I sleep

Trying hard not to weep

I breathe in your scent

And pretend you never went

by Norma M. Freeman

2014 © First Canadian English Rights

Just an Egg

You reached out and touched my hand
The world tilted on shifting sand
Your guiding palm on my lower back
Quaked me like a heart attack
Just a glimpse of your heated eyes
Had me searching for my disguise
But you’d breached my walls, unzipped my hide
Peeped at the yearning coil inside

How could someone I hardly knew
Bypass the protective layers I grew?
I was just an egg with a golden yolk
You cracked my shell and then you stole
My inhibitions, my clothes my pride
Until I begged for a forbidden ride
You gave me all, yet I’m wanting still
Drink forever, never have my fill
You gave me all, yet I’m wanting still
Drink forever, never have my fill

Each of us is just a broken piece
Searching for a sweet release
From craving to be completely whole
To be real instead of playing a role
We think we’re searching for our other half
Think we find it, then it’s not enough
Like we’re destined to wander through
Desert ocher and ocean blue
Until we know there is no place to hide
From ourselves and questions inside

We will always ache and we’ll always groan
Searching for the place called home
Sometimes we’re lucky and we find someone
To share the spaces and have some fun

You reached out and touched my hand
The world tilted on shifting sand
Your guiding palm on my lower back
Quaked me like a heart attack
I was just an egg with a golden yolk
You cracked my shell and then you stole
My inhibitions, my clothes my pride
Until I begged for a forbidden ride
You gave me all, yet I’m wanting still
Drink forever, never have my fill
You gave me all, yet I’m wanting still
Drink forever, never have my fill

Someday

[Female part]

I gave you my number, believing you’d call

Waited such a long time, for nothing at all

Lonely and sad, I went dancing one night

Left with another man, though it didn’t feel right

I still see the high beams, still hear the screams

Feel the pain of the crash in my nightmare dreams

Out of that wreckage, how am I still alive

When he is now on the other side

Now here you are by my hospital bed

Stethoscope at your neck; rubber-soled tread

Chemistry still arcs and sparks between us

But now, I just wish it would leave us

[Male part]

Work was crazy, but I meant to give you a call

— I know excuses mean nothing at all

I truly wish I had made the time

To get to know you and make you mine

I don’t know what he meant to you

Or how or when your relationship grew

Now you're grieving, and you’re not strong

For me to pursue you, just seems wrong

But someday you’ll be well again

 I’ll give you a call, and then

We’ll get to know each other over time

I'll romance you and make you mine

When you’re on your feet again

I’ll give you a call, and then

We’ll get to know each other over time

And I’ll  make you mine; I'll make you mine