Metaphor Means to Carry Over

Yes, there are likely more times 
that color is only what tinges the curtains, 
the paint in these rooms, or the eyes 

of your lover. What else is there to think of ?
When you look at a broken bridge, the fire-
ravaged mountain, a flooded town, 

yes, they are what they are, but they 
are also all the ways in which you feel 
fraught.  In the impossibility of turning 

away from circumstance, you want 
to look for a sign, any sign, that fills
the hours with more than just 

endlessness. Perhaps it holds out two 
hands, and some possibility of choice.