I Met a Young Girl, She Gave Me a Rainbow

Black Pearls and Broken ocean shells Cannot stop my love for you We are shipwrecked on a jagged reef A pirate's treasure of booty with nothing to spend it on The curse is on now it is the dark time and the thunder clouds grumble and groan The rainbow above us is not artificial As Dylan holds that note like a little kid holding onto a helium balloon He yanks it out of the sky like a promise not yet fulfilled an idea incomplete Our folly is funny fumbling footloose through the pillars of time The color and sounds continue to fall, run, sparkle and fade "And what did you see my darling young one?" Her lips are dry her throat parched The words wobbling in her mouth "Were you wounded in hatred or love?" she asks. But she already knows the not-so-simple answer when she looks in my eyes By: Joseph DeMarco