SHADES By Tom Jensen
What color are your eyes?
To me that’s as important
As the color of your skin
About this I am quite certain
What color are you inside?
That’s what really matters
What we can see outside
Are just shades and spatters
Shades from mighty bright white
To midnight black or blacker
To me it’s a mitigated factor
Much like the clothes of a good actor
For it’s just a tiny fraction of the whole
Something that’s beyond all of our control
Gives no insight to the depths of the soul
Might show where we’re from -
But not where we’re gonna go…