Colour Me

The hues and tints of my long life are

ecru, eggshell, cream, vanilla--

the dirty dishwater colours

of an unsure soul struggling for identity

and a modicum of stability

as my little canoe is battered by the waves

of this expanse of wet wilderness

beyond the capabilities of my fragile craft.

 

Now turn on the spotlights.

Those unsure off-whites refract the light

through prisms I didn't even know I had

and now even I can see, and say:

colour me brilliant and beautiful.

Red, yellow, blue—

these are just the beginning.

Read the colour wheel in all its combinations

to glimpse the harmonies and euphonies

that define me.

I sail in my untippable canoe

through all weathers,

wrapped in my rainbow.

 

 

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