Green and Gold

I see it all around; green and gold. I see everything, I know everything, and I have learned everything on this simple subject. I have memorized it all by heart. You may see it as mere insignificance, but I feel it as wonder. Recalling the spaces are easy for me; three dives, two close together, one farther but closer to the destination. Seven lines down the middle, a bit off, but still making the way clear for both ways. On the line is an edge, one hard to drive over by mere toys, by untouched by new technology. And the most precious to me is what is at the end. I know I may not have long, to see them. The ‘them’ are opposites, you see? But both have one marvelous talent that is the same; they make me happy; so much happier than I should be allowed. So, I take the destination to what is in store. Walking down the lines, counting every step that I take. Before I reach the end, I ponder about what it has been like. To be here with these two, I can’t put into words. But I can tell what I have felt. Love, joy, happiness, pain, betrayal, defeat, loss. So many things that it is sad to recall, but I need to. I must always think of my memories, so they won’t be lost forever. My mind drifts, until one of them speaks. I gaze up, my eyes hidden behind my hair, as the gold in everything mixes with the green, the green in everything in sight. I see green on him, green on her, but gold in both of them. As I think I smile, and as I smile I hurt, as I think how some of the best happiness of my life are meeting here, in this one destination.