Black And White Poem by Jamie Loughlin

Painting the sky of my world,
I picked out black and white.
Neatly on my palette,
I painted the sky as bright.

I never mixed the two,
because I don't like the color grey.
The color grey does not belong
in the world I see today.

My paintbrush seems
to have had some blue,
mixed in with my white and black,
making a sadder hue.

Now my sky has a horizon of grey
A bluer grey than if I had
just accepted that perhaps
Grey is not a denial of black and white.