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GRAYby Jane Yolen

How many ways to describe gray:gray louring sky, nearly black;gray stone, a wall fallen down;gray of rock, ribboned with crevices;gray wall pocked with bullet holes;gray splotches of old, dried blood.The day is gray with weeping,the hour gray with horror.The dusk will be gray with no promise.The night a darker shade of graywithout dreams.And yet in that corner of the gray wall,beneath the gray sky,in the middle of the gray day,out of the gray, dusty, thirsting earth,a small green shoot struggles upward,pulling itself towards the gray light,harbinger, herald, hope.If we wait—a day, a week, a season,all of them gray—there will be a flower,a wall flower.And it will be red,the color of life’s new blood,of the rebirthed sun,of desire, of chance,and gray will only bethe color of memorysoon forgot.