Out From the Shadows

Your once bejewled insistence on the bright

Burned red with passion's might of lovers' light

Till orange, fading in, suppressed the hue

With yellow's caution light, despite the view

Of green that signaled me to grace your ways

Lo! Blue is what I see of you these days

To darken Sol's expression violet

Till indigo is bare and inchoate

Your violet is violently blamed

Til' all your colors coalesce in shame

And self-esteem recedes as viewed in jade

You're not yourself—so look! beyond the shade

Emerge from death's cocoon to face new dawn

And shine anew as how you're truly borne