January 13, 2021
PICK UP YOUR CRAYONS
I don’t remember my thoughts and feelings
that day, when our kindergarten teacher said,
“Pick up your crayons with all those colors!”
I’ve seen little kids in classrooms here and
there - drawing with crayons or colored
pencils and loving every minute of it.
Way back, are we all cavemen and women drawing
pictures of animals and parents and brothers and
sisters and grannies on the walls of our being?
Then is there a day that arrives – like the arrival of
the Gestapo or dangerous soldiers on our street -
and the artist in all of us is arrested and imprisoned?
that day, when our kindergarten teacher said,
“Pick up your crayons with all those colors!”
there - drawing with crayons or colored
pencils and loving every minute of it.
pictures of animals and parents and brothers and
sisters and grannies on the walls of our being?
the Gestapo or dangerous soldiers on our street -
and the artist in all of us is arrested and imprisoned?
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021
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