The Purple Life

Life has slapped me down; all is blue

Red is my spirit color

I’ve fallen in the blue water so deep

I can’t get up

I need the life red promised me

The blue surrounds me makes my skin twitch

I can only grab a small piece of red. I’ll make purple for now

Purple sheets on my bed, sleeping on the hope for red

Purple pillows in every guest bedroom, optimism for my guests

A purple throw pillow for my couch picking me up each time I hug it

Two purple shirts for my honey - his love-making the purple almost red

A purple dress for me, not red yet, but inching in the right direction

On my knees now but reaching up for the red light

Perhaps a purple life might do for now