A Child’s Masterpiece (Children)

Today I found a can of paint. The paintbrush was there, too. Mommy must have left it when her painting was all through. It was such a pretty color, I learned you call it 'red'. It made me think of pretty things that same color in my head. I painted rainbows from the sky, and hearts, and bows for hair. When Mommy saw it, she got mad and sat me in a chair. She told me I was naughty and to think of what I’d done. While I thought, she scrubbed and scrubbed and cleaned off all my fun. I’ll never understand my mom, why she laughed when we were through... I only said I wished the pretty color had been blue.