Blue and clear, the sky above it
Low and grey, this life I live
Under beauty, brown and barren
Evergreen with jealousy

And yet I manage to move forward
Zealous with corrective speed
Under beauty, brown and barren
Longing for that field of green

Black and bleak, the sky above them
Low and dark, my spirits now
Under beauty, brown and barren
Ever changing by conditions

- Fall 1997