colors

colors when with you i can retreat to some place normally reserved for childhood, singing out-of-key songs and playing for a brief moment like a child with no yesterday to create memories that hurt like an open wound. i can teasingly touch you in a way that before today would have seemed silly. i can watch in awe as you light up a fresh smile with the eager passion of a little girl and the reckless abandon of a woman in love. i cherish being able to know you at this time of your life when i can catch you with mustard on your chin and laughter in your heart. you keep me always guessing… wondering; is it warmth, daisies, or memories which fill the menu of your innermost desires? let me serve them to you like kaleidoscopic helium-filled balloons, tightly tied and held, so they can never soar away to a sky in want of colors. Look carefully now, even a patchwork tapestry of heaven pales in comparison to the colors you bring into my life. tolbert