Time consists of many colors.

From the beginning of life everything is coated in the

purity of white as we progress through early childhood.

Then, during the next stage of our lives we play out a variety

of colorful events.  Some in vibrant colors of orange

and red as we pass through the processes associated with

falling in love and experiencing feelings so deep and painful

that we can’t describe them.

∞

Then comes colors of green and blue associated

with events of disappointment and the realization

 that love does not shelter us from all of life’s

ugliness nor the separation associated with

broken, never to be fixed, relationships.

∞

Unfortunately, the blue then turns to a dark

shade of purple as calls to our children go unanswered

and we realize that their lives are as complex as ours once

 were as they deal with raising children and jobs that

seem to provide little more than a paycheck.

∞

The next stage turns our world and our hair to a shade

 of grey as loneliness and the loss of loved ones

becomes the focal point of our existence and we spend

 endless hours sending sympathy cards and attending

 the numerous funerals for those that we once knew and loved

∞

Finally, we must cope with diminishing memories and

feeble and unresponsive limbs that once ran with the wind

as a child and danced through the night as a young adult.

On a good day the mind can still slay dragons when called upon…

until that fateful day that the grey begins to darken and slumber

 beckons bringing forth visions of what lies beyond and eventually

the blackness and release of eternal sleep.

Epilogue

Life may sometimes seem as I have described above

when viewed in its entirety. However, intermingled

between each of the stages of the colors above from

 white, to red, to blue, to purple, to grey and finally to black

are brief periods of glorious sunshine providing a golden

 yellow cast to life that is so full of happiness and joy that

it transcends all things and carries us ever onward

©Copyright Charlie Gragg, November 16, 2010