Red, green, blue and yellow paint the day I would tell her. While black and white create the night and blanket us for slumber.
Tell me about pink and pearl and pale lavender, and how rose and jade in sweet cascade add shades that soften our lives. That world, so much calmer, so far beyond my reach, dances and prances and entangles the lances of the boys along the street. I see it, and smell it and yearn to relish it. But that’s as far as it goes, for there’ll be no princess to add to the mischief of this house of rowdy boys.
I can relate, Rich! My girlfriends and their daughters had to kidnap me when my kids were growing up so I could remember how to wear lipstick ;).
That’s what the neighbor’s kids are for!