Pink is no color for a dinosaur

It's the color of a dozen roses

Party balloons

Bubble gum

Embarrassment

 

Pink may have colored your bones after you died,

were buried,

and iron oxide percolated your marrow,

but pink is not who or what you were in life;

Death seldom provides a faithful reflection.

 

We are re-imagined according to the desires or fears

of those who remember.

How much greater is the distortion after many deaths,

All deaths,

Extinction.

 

We owe you more in post-mortem regard

Than the color of your bones

Or the size of your frame.