THE FOURTH COLOR

There is a reason for this inscription,
I've seen something beyond description.
I really don't know what to do ,
So, For now, I'll simply call it "Q"

Picture, my friend, if you have time
to analyze this little rhyme

There are three primary colors, it is said.
We know them as blue, yellow, and red.
And all the other colors we have seen,
Like orange and purple and green
are made up of the basic three.
If This is truth, I must disagree !

There is a fourth color, that I have seen.
It's totally different; can you know what I mean ?
I wish that I could describe it to you ,
but it's not like red or yellow or blue

It changes all the other colors you see -
at least that's what its done for me.
I could describe it until I die --
don't think you can see it with your eye.

I think that I may hear your scorn
but listen carefully, I must warn.
It's in your mind when you are born.
Then by the world it is torn.

To childhood, we must go back.
Don't think about the things we lack.
Go back to the world of fantasy --
get away from the world of reality.

Be born again and this time stay -
in the greater world of love and play.
Don't venture beyond the garden gate ,
stay with the colors God can create.

For in the garden, you'll find the dove
that God has sent with all his love .
I'd describe this dove to you, my fellow,
but it is not red or blue or yellow .

Copyright
Steve Sauter 1997

This Page Updated
February 09, 2009