october brushed by

october brushed by in the midst of an october sunrise bearing splashes of colors beyond description like a thick acrylic paint mixture crimson with cadmium yellow thrown…scattered like seed…by the hand of god morning unfolds like a delicate rose light crawls like aching fingers touching soft lips that moisten the sands, retreating, sliding like two bodies too close to be parted, moving slowly, one advancing- retreating, wave at a time. the water returns— –to the water the sand to the sand and yet the light to darkness i’m sinking beneath the surface of my soul void of color, gray on gray on gray as a jacket of black smothers me suffocating me gripping my heart until i see evil being squeezed out jealousy is green, greed is yellow hatred is black and deceit is red until at last god has taken the ugliness of my heart squeezed my evil and fashioned a brand new color for tomorrow’s rainbow all get one just one and you will remember yours tolbert