Plain White Tee

Inspired from Kahlil Gibran’s Poem “Said a Sheet of Snow-White Paper”

A plain white tee

Was sitting in the hamper

All alone

Baskin in its white unveiled glory

Across the hamper

Lay the shirts with design

Bright colors and graphics

The bright shirts lay in the washer

Piled on top of one and other

They begged the plain white tee

To join them in the bubbly soup

To allow their color to bleed upon it

The plain white tee

Just sat in its hamper

In disgust of the suggestion

It was the whitest most pure shirt

 It wanted to stay that way

And the plain white tee

Basking in its own unveiled glory

Did remain white, colorless, and empty