Tell Me of Rainbows and Second Chances
Tell me again
How there’ll be a thousand
More sunrises
For I forget what it’s like
To bathe in their rays.
Remind of the colors
Of rainbows
That I can no longer name
For I have lost their shape, their tinctures
In my mind;
How there’ll be another flame
In the heart that’s been extinguished,
How it will burst again
With fancies and butterflies
And warmth.
Show me a preview
Of a story
Where lovers keep their promises
And vagrants find their way;
Where the broken-hearted
Feel another’s kiss,
Where the lonely find company.
Tell me of a future
Where the fallen seize
A second chance.
Read me the fortune
Of the ill-fated
In which their stars align.
Tell me again
That the world is kind.
Tell Me of Rainbows and Second Chances
January 11, 2021