If you go down in the woods today
	you'll be in for a big surprise.
Such a surreal sight seen on display -
	you simply won't believe your eyes.

Hyaline hues from the surrounds have soaked away
	and, in a helter-skelter dash for shelter, found the forest-floor's disguise.
To leave a forest with sad colours clad - not a colour gay -
	as sporadic spheres upon the soil the spectrum lies.

Behind the trunks of trees, this clandestine clique of colours hide,
	and conduct their cabal of chromatic conniving.
The forest's frantic pleas for rightful dues are duly denied,
	while wily spheres wallow in the pleasures they're deriving.......from depriving.

Almost palpable is the pitiful pine-pining
	for selfish spheres to imbue with hue.
Most justifiable is the wistful bark's wan-whining,
	wishing only to have on view its rightful due :

		Nothing with too bright a glare -
			nothing too obviously gay.
		Save for some sombre siennas, spheres may spare -
			anything that's not as glum as grey.

From out of the heads of trees head forest entities:
	squirrels aroused to browse by this inciting sight.
One of the furry fir-fellows feels far safer in a tree,
	while the other feels the need to feed an appetite
and so, valiantly ventures to investigate curious coloured confectionery,
	and finally from a blue ball takes a titbit-bite.

But the squirrels aren't the only ones to see,
	for, from above, a dove descends to alight beside a light.
And, feeling peckish for a peck of blue, it bends forward submissively,
	bowing to a scrumptious sphere to plead its pallid plight.

While further in the forest, deep and dark as night,
	the grim grimace of a woods-owl turns to scowl at this commotion.
Completely vexed and perplexed by the selfish spheres' spate of spite,
	in a bid to rid the forest of further foray, owl offers these words of caution :

		If you come down in the woods today
			you'd better wear grey disguise.
		Or thieving spheres might snatch away
			your colours right before your eyes.

		So, if you're really not keen to be their prey,
			this is what I'd advise :
		Simply stay well away from these woods today,
			and you'll prove yourself most wise.