The Book
The landscape of love can be found in a child's coloring book,
for love demands simplicity. The coloring-in of that land is your work.
Firstly, it is essential that you gaze upon the frontispiece
just beneath the cover.
This page will be blood red if it’s any other color
then you are in a fairytale.
Study the page
if you don’t see yourself drowning in that deep red,
then you are not willing to make the sacrifice,
turn no more pages.
This is not a land that is any place on a map,
it has a certain amount of roughly sketched-out pages;
to see beyond them a part of you must be remade,
perhaps some piece of you must die.
If the red page has changed to a more amiable hue by page seven
then you can move on confidently coloring within the lines,
and the story being told
will probably work out just fine.
Copyright © Eric Ashford | Year Posted 2021
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