I wrote this last 2/2/06 - 1st yr college and this is how I used to express myself. Hope you like it and sorry for the grammar I'm not really good at it. 

"An Abstract Painting"

A painter gave me a life to live
As he paints a colorful one
My life had started in a piece of canvas.

It was a place that full of different meaning
You'd rather misunderstood the meaning of those
It was a colorful one and have a different shapes,
That shows my personality...

It was a little yellowish brown child
That plays in the sands with my brothers
As I started to go in a place,
 with different shades of mine.
They best described me in a blue one...

A shy, quiet and kind person or a good one.
But some may see me with an unknown color,
That makes them curious about it.
It's like a mysterious girl, that come in a place
Where you can find a different shades of her...

A red one where added in the canvas
That makes me more colorful in the painting
A lot of sufferings...sacrifices...and trials
That came into my life.

I had a purple one because of the combination of
   Goodness and the trials.
But its has also an orange that explodes my heart
And turns to black that shows my hopelessness in life.
But someone makes me yellow that gave me hope
And became white to start again a new one.

And now...as I continue from that color again,
I'll make it more colorful...