Watercolor fantasies

• Marie Brandyberry, Grade 8
• Poetry
• 2003

A watercolor girl, with faded gold hair and light blue eyes.
She wore a long pink dress beneath a watercolor sky.

A little boy with light brown hair,
picked up the little girl with faded gold hair.

The turpentine rain slowly washed them away.
Now all that’s left are their faded paintings to stay.

A ring of heartbreak engulfed the room.
An artist was gone, but in his paintings he lived on.

She looked upon his paintings until they washed her away.
She’d come back to reality some other day.

She ran through his paintings, each and every one,
She stopped at the only one with a watercolor sun.

She ran towards him, her arms open wide.
He had paintbrushes in his hand, but had nothing to hide.

Heavy rain fell from the dark heavens, and it again washed him away into the watercolor sky.
But on this day, as fate would have it, the rain washed her away with him into the blue watercolor sky.