Back to Black and White
\nby cricketjeff on April 3, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nWhere there used to be a rainbow, there are clouds and dismal rain;
\nThere were flowers round a meadow, now there’s litter round a drain;
\nThere were ginger-headed children; now they’re old and sad and grey;
\nWhen you left my moving pictures, Technicolor went away.<\/p>\n
I was watching a kingfisher, catching tiny silver fish.
\nNow a sparrow pecks at breadcrumbs on a dirty plastic dish.
\nThere was music in the breezes, now there’s silence in the air.
\nI was almost in Nirvana, but now heaven isn’t there.<\/p>\n
We walked through the woods and bluebells, I walk run-down streets alone;
\nWe saw all our friends in person, now mine message on the phone.
\nWe had cocktails in the evening, mine’s a vodka orange crush,
\nNow I’m drinking long-flat cider, watching snowdrops die in slush.<\/p>\n
When you spoke I heard the fairies, throwing magic in the fields,
\nSo the farmers were embarrassed by their crops’ unheard of yields.
\nWe were living for forever, now I’m dying every hour,
\nAnd my days are filled with rainstorms, not a passing summer shower.<\/p>\n
Through the Spring and Summer seasons you were every blazing hue;
\nEvery poster-plastered hoarding, every sunset sang of you.
\nBut you left me in the Autumn, taking golden-browns away —
\nNow my life is filled with Winter, and ten thousand shades of grey.<\/p>\n
Author notes
\nPrompt:<\/p>\n
Colours have broken into shades of grey
\nwhere sunlight no longer lives
\nto breathe fresh upon a yellow daffodil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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