Palette

I took this week off to get my bearings back.  It has begun well.  Somehow noticing more green after just a little bit of rain helps me know things are returning a bit to what they were.  This is hopeful.  I am grateful to notice.  Part of the noticing is the realization of a new homonym: palette, pallet, and palate.  Never thought of that one before :D

Today is brighter,

Yet somehow softer.

The tiny bit of rain yesterday

Added green to the palette

Of the browning lawn.

Today the spectrum

Of emotion expands

As well.

I see hope in the possibility

Of relationship

Swelled,

Contrast sprinkled

Into life,

More green in the palette,

More signs of possibility.

Brighter, yes,

Yet somehow

Softer.