Watercolors
WATERCOLORS
If dawn has any value other than being a pretty picture
It is that the start of a new day offers potential
And the second chance we so often need:
For life is a series of mistakes interrupted by temporary successes
Which masquerade as victories for some and defeats for others;
But both are illusions and their colors can be, and often are,
Easily washed out - like the dawn in the early morning rain -
And we only see as through a glass darkly *
With no guide nor even hunch to lead us :
And we sketch the outlines of our intentions
With little certainty of filling in the colours or finishing the picture.
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NOTE
* From the New Testament - Corinthians 13 : 12
( Lightfoot song title selected = EARLY MORNING RAIN )
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Written by Sydney Peck
Entered in Francine Roberts’s Contest Write me a Lightfoot Poem
Copyright © Sidney Beck | Year Posted 2012
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