The Black Sheep !!

They called me the black sheep. In a flock full of perfection and whites, I was the misanthropic. To me the world was an open canvas and I desired to paint it with all the free flowing colors in my color box. But every now and then my white fellas would stop and tell me the sky is supposed to be blue and the mountains green. I would always tell them these skies and mountains are mine and I would paint them with whatever pleases my sight. For the colors I chose I was declared an outcast, for my skies were white and the mountains pink.

The white fellas were called clan and me the chink. The prospect of me not fitting in made me anxious. This morning I painted my skies blue and the mountains green. My color box looked gloomy for they did not want me to fit in. The flock embraced me as one of their own and my coat radiated white where it was black all along. They told me I looked like one of them now and this is where I always belonged.

I picked up the empty canvas this morning and painted the skies blue and the mountains green. The flock turned to each other and murmured in unison. They said the rains have arrived and the clouds are no longer blue. Pick up the brush and paint it black, for all of us painted it black you know. I went to dip the brush in black and it dawned on me the sky never leaves its true color. The rain makes the clouds appear black as the rays of the sun cannot penetrate the sky. I should be the sky for whatever pierces through me changes the outside but the insides scream the same color.

Among the whites, I will always be the black one. An outcast, a rule breaker, the fierce one to choose my own colors, the wanderer who wishes to pick up a new color each day and a seeker who wishes to find new colors on the trail. With a new found courage and enthusiasm, I looked my flock in the eye and picked up my brush and painted it all white. I said these are my skies and they will remain white. In a flock full of whites you will always remain the black one they said. They called me the black sheep something I am proud of today.