Rainbow Light

Rainbow Light

By Mackenzie Rose Nickel

When something happens

Something like a pandemic

Our colors become

Electromagnetic

We show up as Mothers

Fathers, and Daughters

Loving each other

Through salty waters

Navigating life

Bearing thunderous all

Moving together

As rain starts to fall

I ask the permission

Of light staggering

Up and down halls of our memory

Reminiscent of life before it got scary

To be here with me now

As we both breathe

Illuminate frames

Expose the fragility

Your sweet roses bloom

When the garden is fed

Even when thorns

Draw something red

Orange sun setting

Soon we forget

The pain that we feel

As we start to sweat

And if we can’t hug

I ask you to squeeze

The yellow from your lemon

juicy

The grass isn’t always

More cared for or green

In places that

We’ve dreamt of or seen

True pride comes after

The blue stormy sky

Has given her all

In an ugly cry

The clouds part ways

And we come together

Our true colors show

Soon after weather

Enough works been done

By Ancestors and kin

Who manifested royal

Light from within

We share the same breath

But not the same color

And yet we strive

To love one another

And when we breathe deep

Our colors collide

Refracting our beautiful

Rainbow light