Skittles

When Joe was five he scraped his knee,

He'd done it as he fell from the climbing tree

He cried to his mommy, and she said he'd be fine

It was his daddy that made him better in time

His daddy sat beside him and handed him the red packet of colourful sweets.

He told Joe that the green ones, would stain all his teeth.

Life is full of colours. He said to his son.

Dont let anything make you only see one.

When Joe was eighteen he had his heart broke.

Constantly visiting their initials carved into the old oak.

He moaned to his friends and they called him a dud

It was his father that stepped up, with a good manly hug

He sat beside him and handed him the red packet of colourful sweets.

He told Joe that the green ones, would stain all his teeth.

Life is full of colours. He said to his son.

Dont let anything make you only see one.

When Joe was 29, he got fired from his current job.

It was the same day his apartment got robbed

His dad was by him, helped him get back on his feet

And there he was, with that same old treat.

He sat beside him and handed him the red packet of colourful sweets.

He told Joe that the green ones, would stain all his teeth.

Life is full of colours. He said to his son.

Dont let anything make you only see one.

Joe fell ill at forty-two, the cancer too big to cure

He lay in the hospital bed, as his dad walked through the door

The pain was evident on his papas face

And he gently pulled him in, for a loving embrace.

Joe looked at his dad and handed him the packet coloured red,

He watched his dad smile, and slowly shake his head.

Life is full of colours, to dad said son.

Dont let anything make you only see one.