why zert zed no longer likes red

Why Zert Zed no longer likes red
(a work in progress, but on hold, pending inspiration, time, and patience)

Zert is a boy.
His last name is Zed.
Zert loves the color red.
His pillow is red,
so is his bed
and also his bear
Whose name is red ted.

Zert likes to draw things and color them red.
he drew two fish
and one fat cat.
He drew a dog, a frog,
a mouse and a bat.

He drew them all fast, right before bed
“But tomorrow”
he said,
“I will color you red.”
“you all will be red
red you shall be.
Anything red is just fine by me”

Zert jumped into bed and counted red sheep
In just a few minutes, Zert was asleep
And dreaming red dreams.
But some dreams aren’t as nice
As at first they might seem.

Zert dreamed the whole world was red
Not just his pillow, much more than his bed.
The ground was red, the sky was not blue
He was red, and his house was red too.
In a world colored red
Everything looks the same

Things that crawl and fly
and swim and walk
Look just the same
as things that sing and things that talk.
What a shame!
Things that went and things that came
Everything looks exactly the same.

Zert woke from the dream and jumped out of bed.
And he said,
“If my name isn’t Zert Zed…”
(and Zert Zed is his name)
“I will not allow this, I will not be to blame
for coloring the world red
and making everything the same”

He looked at his drawings,
(the things that he drew)
he thought for a second and knew what to do
“I’ll start with the fish” said Zert Zed
“the first will be purple, the next shall be yellow,
the fat cat will be an orange-ish-colored fellow!”
he made the dog brown and the frog green
not red, but just like others he had seen.
The mouse he colored grey, and the bat he made black
He colored and colored and colored and colored
And never looked back.
“I’m sick of red” said Zert, whose last name is Zed
“Many colors are better than one
when everything is one color the world is no fun”