It's Still Life

Breakthrough

I.
When the world was mud,
and its surface was soft,
we didn’t need all 120 colours.
Didn’t need a big box of crayons
every Christmas. Everything
was black and white back then.

II.
Mum said we kids
were the muddied hue
of a drainage ditch.
A wee squelch.
Squelching is no bad thing
when you’re a single cell
waiting for a breakthrough.

for Twiglet #27 “colour of mud”