Paint Me A Rainbow

Paint me as you will,

But please use all the colors

Shades of White

Baby's breath innocence

Snow covered virginity

Fresh cotton breeze

Purity's tabula rasa

Waiting to be written

Beginning of Everything and Nothing

Visible light's omni-color radiance

Shades of Black

Gloomy and morose, light choked

Eyes bleed ink

I can see, but it's dim

Forgot to remember

The pain goes away

If I let it all go and

Surrender

Shades of Red

Anger, Intensity, Passion and Blood

In the trenches, a fighter

The cause, one of Love

Healed up old wounds

Washed off the mud

Benched the players

Embraced the Dove

Shades of Orange

Appetite, colors of harvest

Driving insatiable need

For Knowledge, Happiness, Fulfilment

Hungry fire

Stealing breath, consuming flesh

Now filling the hole

With sunsets and marigolds

Shades of Yellow

Sunshine smiles, daffodil grins

Dance hypnotic

Of candle flame's lick

Solar light from core radiation

Power and joy

In the warmth

Of Creation

Shades of Green

Grounded, raw

Rooted in stability

Connected to Earth

Drawing Life

From the Source

Abundance, growth and

Fresh buds of Spring

Shades of Blue

Sad but Peaceful

Pensive depths of oceanic reach

Thoughts trickle like a stream

And then rage like a river

Then quietly come to rest

Is it a placid lake

Or a pond of sorrow

Shades of Pink

Delicate rosebud

Blush of cherub cheeks

Sunrise and Romance

Flush of lips

Sweet kiss of summer

Strawberry ice cream melts on tongues

Love in bloom's tender caress

Shades of Purple

Balanced passion in

Crowning emotions

Lilac wafting breeze

Sugar-plum dreams of ultra-violet beams

Visions of unity, actualized divinity

Grape nourished body in

Truth's richest wine

I am the subject, but you are the artist

Brush stroked filters of perception

Position, lighting, and perspective,

a vision your own.

Whether beautiful or monstrous

Is beyond my influence

But kindly include the hues of my moods and shades of my experience

See me in the rainbows that dance

upon the wall

Light broken in multi-faceted prism's refraction,

revealing identity's spectrum

Paint me as you see

but please use all the colors

For I AM all the colors

And all the colors are ME