The Poet- MM-The Paradise Series

Rainbow
When I see Blue, I remember the afternoon when we lay down and watched the clouds pass by in the
in the sky and I said, I love you. When I see Yellow, I think of the time when I ran with you through
a field of daises and when I caught you, I said, I love you. When I see Green, I see the leaves I threw
on you one morning when I played with you and I said, I love you. When I see Black, I smell, the toast
you burnt and laughed and I said, I love you. When I see Red, I recall the festival dragons, we watched
together one New Years Day and I said I love you. When I see Brown, I see the colour of your eyes
that first captured me and I said, I love you. When I see White, I see the dress you wore on our
wedding day and I said, l love you. When I see Gold, I remember the ring I put on your finger and I
said, I love you. But do you know where I first met you and why I love the colours of the rainbow?
I was introduced to you in paradise, in a time before time. You were an angel of magnificent beauty,
a site unexplainable inexplicable. A gentle and kind light that blinded my countenance for a moment,
when I first gazed at your stunning female form, when he brought you to me. You looked at me and
you said, I know you better than you think. I said to myself, How can she be so presumptuous,
when I have never met her before. You replied confidently, I am of you because I was taken from
you in the beginning. When did this happen, I do not recall? I thought to myself. You answered me,
We were made in pairs from the same spoken word and the same divine essence. The ALL separated
me and hid me from you, until the ALL had educated you in the glories of the Kingdom. The ALL created
a secret garden in the Kingdom and filled it with living manifestations plants, trees, foliage, insects,
birds, beasts, mammals, fishes and it was perfect. The ALL placed me in the garden among gentle
mothers and watchful fathers who taught me how to love you and how to please you. I watched the
ALLs creations play, mate, reproduce, father and mother and love each other in garments of flesh.
There I learnt what it is to care and be responsible for other living beings, how to raise them, how to
feed them and how to love them unconditionally. They taught me about you and your needs and your
wants, that is why I know you better than you think. But I have everything in this place, I reasoned
with myself. Oh no! This is not for here but for our next home, where you will resume your education
in finite and temporal things, so that you may learn to appreciate what is infinite and everlasting when
you finally return to the place you first began. In this home you will learn to value me, to honour me,
to appreciate me, to protect me and to love me and until you do, you will not return to paradise again.
Then you told me about a special rainbow that never faded in this hidden paradise that stood over an
ever flowing stream, among rocks and foliage of pristine. You would go to this place every day and
pass your fingers through the rainbow and you would wonder about this beautiful light and these
magical colours and what they mean? In the Kingdom there was no other place where this rainbow
could be seen and the ALL hid it from me. Your friends would play there with you and you would sing
and dance to music of the stream. You would say to the rainbow, I love you! and you would plea
with the rainbow to let you know its secret but it would not speak to you. Then one day when you
were sad, the ALL comforted you. A small still voice spoke from behind the rainbow and said, When
go to your new home, you will experience the meaning of the rainbow and the rainbow will love you.

Meredith Meredith 2015