Scarlet, Jade, and Amber
I stand at a precipice,
The world at my feet,
And gaze upon infinite possibility:
A panorama of fresh-laden snow.
It's untouched by my hand, breath, or pen,
Beware, white world of mine,
For that shall change in time.
...
I drift in a fog,
A haze, if you will,
Indifferent and unaffected
By my bleak world of bland.
"Nothing's new under the sun,"
And too right, I would be,
If, through her curtain of rust,
She had not peeked at me,
With her eyes of jaded verdigris.
...
I took a chance, I took a step,
And leapt from my lofty height, and now –
Tumbling, tumbling down I go
Into a cosmos of fairy tales,
With monsters and heroes galore,
But none are properly labeled, you see.
So, I need a faithful and trusted companion
To be my true and noble guide.
Would you please, be he?
...
Her faint life-light pierces
My dreary, drizzling domain,
And like a man born blind
With his first glimpse of sunshine,
I howl in agony and hide.
But soon I draw near
As if a moth to its doom,
For captivated am I
By her innocent perfume.
'Tis something so rare
That by my oath, I swear
It shall not be defiled.
...
All is light, warm, and gold,
As our friendship blooms –
But of course,
Shadows must creep,
And sorrows seep
Into our Canvas Idyll.
I teeter on the edge.
The Cliffs of Madness loom.
Do you not see?
I need not a chivalrous Prince of Charm,
Or a Joe of Norm,
But a steadfast and faithful you!
For, I am pushed by circumstance,
And propelled by a foe I do not know
Into the abyss below
Where my hope of amber dims.
...
What was muted before
Is now a vibrant spectrum,
Effervescent and pulsating.
Green glows emerald
And blue blazes bold,
Dancing across my senses
As her laughter caresses
And her ire awakens
Feelings lost, long ago.
.
Yet, is happiness to be mine?
No, for reality invades,
And scarlet cascades.
A river of her crimson flows.
...
'Tis the end of the line,
And all that could have been mine
Is taken in brutal fashion.
Scarlet purloins
The light of my jade
As I agonizingly fade
Into the Void.
.
Yet, out of the gloom,
My iridescent knight,
My love and my life,
Exchanges my fate
For that of ever-changing
Onyx and Amber.
