Tell me life is black and white <br />That there's a wrong and there's a right <br />Where good men never rot in graves <br />And villains always change their ways <br /> <br />Show me that there is some cause <br />Some just material from cosmic laws <br />Descending from determined hands <br /> That there really was a master plan <br /> <br />So I tie my mouth around a stone <br />And sit with ease of caged angels <br />Looking patient with strong virtue <br />While wishing vengeance with a cudgel <br /> <br />A person's truth is another's crime <br />Our best relations come through lies <br />Were locked behind doors with holes <br />Peering through imagined glances <br /> <br />One day you wake and feel the same <br />While realizing there's been a change <br />You look inside the mirror and see <br />The stranger you thought you'd never be <br /> <br />It seems to me the spring is shorter <br />That geraniums laughter is getting older <br />The suns riptide pours from the clouds <br />Pink and orange bloom in their shrouds <br /> <br />Now I know the world is grey <br />That love begins and ends in pain <br />There is no secret grand design <br />Accept the one you live behind<br /><br />Kevin Patrick<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/black-white-and-grey-2/
