An Ode to Coloring

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Oh coloring,

I was never good at you,

but you were always so patient with me.

How I met you,

through crayon,

through pencil,

I regret for not remembering.


Oh coloring,

my dear first expression,

my first form of idea,

my first physical imagination,

I'm so grateful

to you and your eye openers,

to worlds other than gray.


Oh coloring,

how much I'd like time and times

like that again,

streaking green along edges for grass,

circling corners with yellow for sun,

all over any page,

just for the hell of it.  

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