It's time to paint again

I smiled.

"It's time to start

painting again,"

you said.

Usually the leap

towards labour doesn't

tug at me

like this, but

preparing another

room for one more

beating heart,

for one more

smiling face,

for one more

interminable love,

well,

this is not labour.

I feel the potential

growing within me

to face this

with power and

conviction, as I

run my hand across

the rainbow of

samples.

Copyright Catherine Young, 2011.