green
the color of calm,
softly blowing under a blue sky,
redolent with sunshine, fragrant with growth,
alive with the buzzing of bees.
the color of stagnation,
skimming across the dark depths,
obscuring a slimy, slithering world beneath,
heating and stinking under the blazing sun.
the color of jealousy,
always in the eyes, a mad monster,
thickening the blood, inciting anger,
stirring the basest of desires.
the color of greed,
paper tinted green, adorned with dead presidents,
driving people to do more, have more, want more
need more, spend more, get more.
the color of the earth,
a symbol of our attempt to do more,
to waste less, to leave the world better than we found it,
a promise to the future generations that it is calm,
and not stagnation, or jealousy or greed
that we leave as our legacy.
2 comments:
A delightful poem that truly captures all the phases of green.
thank you, jamie for your delightful compliment.
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