Painted Portraits

Each shade different, yet refracting from a shared origin.

For no one person can be represented by a single color, as each shade balances the other.

Red, therein lies a fiery fierceness that will forever remain untamed.

Green, standing contradictory to fire, encompasses that finite feeling of respite.

Yet neither can be represented without the other, as fierceness with no respite only encourages a person’s plight.

As yin and yang balance together to make a whole better, contrary colors are better together.

Uniqueness cannot stand conformity, as colors cannot stand uniformity.

For say I single out a certain color, one without the other leaves both duller than when put together.

Complementing colors are complementing traits, as each person contains a cascade of characteristics that when cared for creates a color-coated canvas.

Each shade shifts into place with the final stroke of decision, for the choice of who you are is yours for your eternity.

Tempered; shaded through the harsh harmony orchestrated by life, yet softened through subtle salve, each shade shifts with circumstance.

Thus, no shade of blue will ever ring true. Is it cobalt or cerulean? Sapphire or steel? Serene or sorrowful?

So think of the masses of people you’ve passed and imagine a reflective sheet of glass, for each color lies near another, coating that canvas of balanced contrast.