My friend, Dalton

I'm so glad Dalton Roberts is my friend.  What a lovely mind and heart this man has!

RAINBOWS ARE REAL
By Dalton Roberts

You can’t touch a rainbow
but rainbows are real.

A rainbow can lift your heart
on a dull, dreary day.
How many things have such power?
Yes, rainbows are real.

Become more sensitive
to the subtler aspects of reality
and you will not be such a sucker
for the dense, physical things
that have us hypnotized.

The rainbow is as real as anything can be,
There’s something there.
You can see it.
If just one of your senses verifies something
It is real.
Sometimes your sixth sense is right on the money.

You can’t touch a lot of things
that as real as a concrete wall.
Like love.
If you don’t think love is real
try to take a frightened baby away from its mother
or a child’s hand out of his father’s hand
or try to keep a son from kissing his mother as she dies.

Rainbows and love
have more in common
than concrete and steel.