Through My Mind:-and other short stories-

Sky

The first time I ever saw color was in the barn, as the sun hit the water in my pail, rainbow lights danced among the rafters. When I told my dad, he laughed and said I was dreaming. Color such a foreign idea, alien to my quite empty village. Me? I was nothing yet the Gods gifted me with the unusual gift of color.

The world changed for me that night, the sky took on a color that made me want to laugh, Bright and bold, free- endless and timeless. The grass became lush, a color only able to be described as life's essence in its truest form. My hair turned sandy, my eyes the bold colors of heaven when the golden sphere lit the sky up with its glow.

Yet nobody but me seemed to see the drastic change in the surroundings. That night after the golden orb fell its colors fading back to the drab world of the past, color became my secret, my hope. I wonder sometimes if it all was a clever daydream of a bored boy with a lot on his mind and a wish for a different world