An Ode to the Color Green

An Ode to the Color Green

Green – life eternal.
Waves of rolling green
blanketing the sides of roadways,
hugging Mother Earth,
consuming her dirty surface.
Clinging, parasitic,
to the tops of tree trunks
until the color fades
and falls, broken and crumbling
to the forest floor.
Ferris wheel loops in the distance,
lights sparkling
like shiny pears in the night.
The moon shines down
on lovers, intertwined,
silent in the mass of green.
The world goes by,
unnoticed.
Sleep creeps up on the meadow,
slowly, green with envy
of the awakening to follow.
The rain pours down from open skies,
drenching the thirsty
Green.