Green

I never understood favorite colors

The decisiveness of it all

Like settling on a mortgage

Or a soul mate

I made up my mind

That they were all the same

Until I noticed the immensity of Green

Hiding in plain sight

Spilling out of my eyes

Onto the canvas of the world

Casually thriving while the other colors came

And went

It lives in perfectly manicured fields

Their familiar hue often overlooked

But a cohesive oneness

And expansive horizon of potential lay there

Or the unruly Amazon

Brimming with answers hidden in its roots

Its untamed vines like a playful spark of desire

Who knows what will grow there if we let it

More importantly to me

It’s the color of your eyes

How they struck when they first caught me

Reeled me in

Like pure magic

Not the typical kind,

The kind that pulls you thousands of miles

From your home

And places you in front of a stranger

Who’s electric touch helps you from a train

So charged that uninspired jaded blades

Stood on edge

It’s the color of envy, I’ll concede

But envy is misunderstood

I’m envious

That your lips are currently unoccupied

By mine

Of those who have explored your heart

Of memories on an emerald mountainside

Of the future us

It’s a perpetual elixir

Not burning out

Like the fiery passion of red

That eventually smolders

And is washed away

Like icy blue over stone

No, Green’s subtle love is life itself

Transcending the physical distance

That stands in our way

Manifesting our juniper connection

And leading me to a terminal

In your shamrock home

Full of hope