Multicoloured

I am red.

Not a loving rose red but a hard rock red.

When passion sets fire in my bones.

You can’t miss it with your cones.

Whether it be towards the man I love, the work I do dream of

Or the world I hope to one day see,

I feel I am mostly red for all the times my heart is torn off my sleeve.

From Ruby Red to Blood Red

The Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

But this Apple can also be soured with green.

At times a greedy dragon green lurks in the shadows beneath.

All but my drive and ambition spark the flames that it breathes.

I must stay yellow.

I repeat.

Yellow

and humble as a now rare bumble bee.

But I can also be blue.

Cold, sad and hungry for love when the colours call out my dullest of dulls.

Yet, when my multiple and very much so versatile shades battle each other to a black, it’s true.

I am then a lightning purple. Electrified with a vibrating, anxiety cue.

An overwhelming sensation corrupt with a toxicity of beating up thyself.

Inhaling the fumes of the nasty colours I paint myself.

But she, well she is my yellow.

My sunny day, my sunset sky.

My ride or die. Best friend for life.

But she... is all colours of the rainbow.

L-G-B-T-Q-I-A.

And I green her for it in the most passion fruit pink way.

To be as open and bold is to be as eye catching as magenta.

To be as calm and collected as my sea blue colouring pencil.

Her rainbow sheds rays of light on my lone wolf greys and brings out the colours in me

that I once could not see.

My red and blue met my own yellow hue.

They wedded and introduced the green, purple and tangerine. Atlas I became a rainbow too!

Although similar but not quite the same, teal and turquoise resemble her and I, the community aside.

Because it was never about the labels as much as the colours you see.

What lies within is a spectrum of vibrant fractions of light, that slightly differ in, her, you and me.

A sky blue. So true and kind to you.

You are a mix.

I could never see a more colourful you.

Don’t let standing out, seem so black and white

as your luminescent Lime is your greatest light.

As our friendship bleeds and blends,

it is always there to hold

qualities that highlight everything in it that is gold.