Connotation of Purity

By Jaclyn Parris 

Purity is the absence of anything harmful,

 Inferior,

And unwanted

But purity is more than that

Purity is remaining

Unaware of

The contents

Behind locked doors

Purity is clean clothing

Folded in a basket

With the fresh smell

Of detergent

Purity is a single

White rose;

The first blossom

Of May

Purity is the natural essence

Of beauty

Like a girl

Without make-up

                                                

Purity is a girl having

A first kiss

Innocently imagining

Her wedding day

Purity is a young smiling man

With his two year old

Daughter on his shoulders

Touring the zoo

Purity is an old man

Purchasing yellow lemonade

From his smiling

Grandchildren

Purity is sitting beneath

The blue sky

Finding abstract animals

In the clouds

Purity is the cool sky

Surrounding the chilly ocean

The evening awaiting

Tossing of the sandy beach

Purity is drinking water

From the source of a surging waterfall

Cascading down the side

 Of an icy mountain

Purity is flat grey pebbles

Lining the bottom

Of the neighborhoods

Bubbling brook

Purity is a rock

Weathered

To finally form

A smooth grey heart

Purity is snacking

On a cheerio necklace

Worn around your neck

For the first day of Kindergarten

Purity is the unmarked territory

Of the sun

Burning to heat the

Ground we walk upon

Purity is the man in the moon

Calling children

To their tidy

 And cozy beds.

Purity is a child dozing off

After read to

From a crease less

Children’s book

Purity is lifting the cover

Of a new book

Breathing in the smell

Of paper and ink

Purity is a young

Giggling boy

Skipping down the street

Gripping his grinning mother’s hand

Purity is giving

A child their first cone

Of creamy vanilla ice cream

And wiping it from their sticky chin

Purity is a playground

Full of children

Closely watched by

Their parents

Purity is easily lost

Why is so quickly lost by bearers

If beholders wish it was theirs

 To treasure?