What I Learned While Coloring

Some things I can change
In my spectrum wide world
Inhabited by the stick people that I love.

I can have curly hair
and the longest eyelashes in the world.
I can make my sisters smaller than me
And give my brother a crew cut that he hates.

I can grow monstrous flowers in brilliant tints
To wave along the curving sidewalks
Of my imaginary castle house.

I can hang colorful curtains
To fly in every window
And a smiling dog sits patiently by my side.

But the best lesson I learned
With a rank of rainbow soldiers
Clutched in my hand
Is the world doesn't have
A lonely strip of sky across the top above me.

But the calm azure heavens
With marshmallow clouds
And a dazzling sun
Reaches down
Surrounds it all
And goes all the way to the ground.