A Color of My Own

I really want to be the rainbow

Red, yellow, all the way to blue

Together I'm safe, guarded by layers

Separate shows the flaws in my hue

I've tried to be one color

But it seems there are so few

One by one I played them out

And I always think, that's not you

I am running out of colors

My pallet's feeling small

Why does one feel so strange?

Why can't I just be all?

Angry, I threw my tools down

and listened to my heart

I can't be somebody else

I deserve my own art

So I made my own color

Farewell to green, orange, and gold

Beautiful, though they are

but stories already told

I wished to be the rainbow

I was scared to be one color

but what makes me unique is

I'm not like any other