Color Our Love

Color Our Love

I search back over the past,
Noticing the hues of love
That sprinkle through events
That included pain and joy.

Warmth of your arms curled
Around me through ageless decades,
Leaving a glow that lingers still
After more than forty years.

Tints of pain gave texture
To the happiness we knew,
Shadings that brought forth
Brightness of the gladness.

Would I trade this portrait
Of love that shaped my life
With primary colors that radiated
For one tinged with nothing?

No, I’ll keep our rainbow
Even though it signals
A storm passed through
Not long before it appeared.