Our Colors

Hello there, friend

How nice it is for you to come visit me

How nice of you to come again

Can I tell you about the world I see?

Look...look all around and you will see a prism

Look around and you will see walls

Fractured beams of light, segmented, regimented, always facing two-toned criticism

But we can hear each other's calls

I know you think like me

I know you have a dream in your heart

I know this isn't the world that you want to see

I know how it hurts to see us forced apart

There are so many of us

All in waiting

There is so much we can discuss

About a world in need of creating

You and I know it's a world without borders

A place where the word "acceptance" has a different meaning

It is a world without orders

It is a world where kindred minds are convening

We gather to speak of a tidal rainbow

We gather to speak in the light

We are all ready to plant our seeds and sow

We are ready to set things right

We look upon this beautiful place

All blues and greens and browns and reds

We look at one another's face

It is the colors of our past, the colors of the future in our heads

It is a future where blue is not rising

It is a future where Black and White create a harmony of heavenly song

It is a future where red is the color of roses, and not smoke-laden crying

It is a future where our hearts have been all along

It is a future where we have no need to use the word "accept"

It is a future where all simply "exist"

It is a future without contempt

For our multicolored difference

For me, I am the colors of pink, white and blue

I am the color of a flag of pastel

Now I want to know about you

What shall you share with us? What shall you tell?

What will you give to this world by simply being?

What will you share?

What will you paint with your dreaming?

What shades will paint your care?

We have to build this world; for us, for you, for me

We have to build it with love

We have to paint a rainbow family

We have to rise above

So, you who think like me, I will see you on the rainbow

I will see you as we leak into each other's line

I will see you as we both go

You will share your colors with me and I will share mine

This is a place where we can live and love and be free

This is a place just a moment away from where we stand

This is a place where you can be you and I can be me

This is a place just as far as the reach of a hand

Thank you for showing us you, your work of art

Thank you for choosing to be all shades that you can be

Thank you for sharing your heart

Thank you for loving all of me.