The Ball and The Wall

A happy ball of yellow

Pure and free

Untouched, unloved

and free

It rolls, it grows

No one knows

where this ball of sunshine

goes and goes

It bounds, it leaps

Caring nothing at all

It halts and looks up

a big blue wall

The ball backs away

The wall says to stay

Yes stay, stay

don't roll away

The ball rolls forth

Timid and shy

A center of red

fires inside

"I must go" says the ball

but the wall oh the wall

just won't let go of

the bright yellow ball

A sea of blue

Washes over the ball

It's lost please help

help please

"I'm drowning

I'm drowning

oh please let me go"

"I can't I'm sorry but no no no"

The wall of blue teases

Folds creases, and eases

And freezes as it pleases

the hearts of the unlucky

Yes, how sucky

The ball relaxes

and lets the blue in

It feels the warmth

of the deep blue sin

The ball feels happy

The ball feels safe

in the arms of a monster

Who turns the ball a waif

The ball starts to stutter

and it begins to wonder

if love is what it feels

for the wall it's under

"How silly of you.

You are yellow

I am Blue"

I can not, knot

any ties with you

Drops of sunshine

fall from the yellow ball

He has taken it

taken it all

Now the yellow ball

knows what it's like

What it's like to be felt

to be seen

Yet still not loved

blue bleeds and

the ball is

now

for evergreen