A SENSE OF COLOR

Do those who are blind from birth

make up for not having the gift

of seeing colors by having the gift

of hearing differing tones -  sensing

so many varying  sounds - or having

the gift of  and acute sense of feeling 

so many differences in the things 

we touch and feel: hardness, softness, 

dry, wet, cold,hot, this, that? 

In the meanwhile those of us 

who have the gift of sight

hopefully we see and celebrate

the rainbow of colors in the things

around us - seeing the blendings and twirls

and fadings and shadings on walls and

skin and flowers and all the colorful wonders

of this great big world we live in. Amen.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2012