Color blind

Exploring paths of twisted light:

Filtered Greens, dancing Golds.

Ambers sparkling through hidden ravines

expose memories of forgotten hue.

A tapestry of fragile Silver

sutures the ancient wound

where Obsidian doors once barred entry

but now lie broken on the floor.

Purple Flares. Piercing bright.

Orange beats a disconsolate dirge

and Yellow flirts uncertainly with an angry

dark Maroon.

White lies torn and bleeding

from Crystal veins which

seep an ugly Brown of shame in

deeply searing day-glow.

Opalescent fears fight the

strength of Red denial

while Pink searches the

chromatic haze for

Blue, who cries.

The child, lost so long ago

returns to haunt me now.

Color blind (in monochrome)

see’s shadows of the past,

turns to face the lightening dawn

and dares to hope.