By kevin urenda, kluless70@hotmail.com
Date: 19 May 1999

pink spectacles

Rose colored glasses
cannot give you hindsight
nor any other 20/20 vision
but we wear them anyway.
Sometimes hindsight remains
in the shadows
of the heart
and the truths of the heart
muddy the waters of this life.
Like the Rio Grande of my soul
you came - the spring runoff
of my mid-thirties
to etch a line across
my desert
to leave your sediment
within me
to change my landscape forever.
That much I see clearly
What it all means now is 
coming into focus after
I have tossed aside those
Rose colored glasses.

5/6/99