Color In A Picture

There’s a story in a picture

and a picture doesn’t lie.

What we see we put in

to make it pleasant to the eye.

What you do in a dark room

When no one’s looking through

Is it color that you add

to make your story ring true?

There’s a heart in a picture

Never seen but understood.

But you see it through the maze of

calamity and then knock on wood.

This isn’t how you’d like to be seen.

Or maybe remembered.

But if someone else applies the color

You just can’t surrender.

If you change the hue or the size

It won’t matter if there’s a will to survive.

See, the color in a picture is all in your eyes.

We learn all this from child on

And we are taught who to despise.

We can’t carry that weight

We can’t carry that weight

Because the color in a picture

Should be what we see with our eyes.

It’s not the camera or the lenses; it’s the heart.

And the heart has eyes & ain’t telling lies.