Contrast of the Mind

I'd like to share a view

I learned decades ago

About the colors red and blue

Orange, green, purple and yellow

It started when I had my first

Schizophrenic ordeal

Reality was changed, reversed

E.S.P. had become real

I would find a special meaning

In most everything I'd see

Being a curse and a blessing

A hidden world was opened to me

Some things I would place meaning to

Were symbology in numbers

But what I would to share with you

Is my meaning for those colors

First the color red is interesting

It means love and also evil

But since it means those two things

It could harm or make one gleeful

Next is blue my favorite one

To me it denotes bliss

A perfect day lying in the sun

A feeling that's hard to resist

Orange is one that's more obscure

It relates to strength and power

A will determined a will that's sure

Internally and with the outer

The next one is green also quite cryptic

It's meaning to me is of passion

It could be through words or something artistic

Or maybe through direct forms of action

Purple is all encompassing

It identifies with all the rest

Its potential vast and promising

To know it is to be blessed

Unfortunately yellow

To me has roots in weakness

Psych ward wall paint kept us mellow

Another word would be meekness

My personal standpoints

Have stood the test of time

And with these several conjoints

Is how I would define

All these associations

Were built by mental illness

With each color in different situations

Bringing a unique form of richness