The Soundful Spectrum

The reds sound painful, pleasing, and desired;

As if anxiously and with arousing anticipation.

I’ve laid in wait for the resolve of the hue to come.

But, that resolve is slow in coming… delightfully so.

As the red resolves into burnt tones of orange

the sound becomes aggressive – distorted – fuzzy.

It reverberates throughout my being and…

I shiver and shake and tremble at the tones.

Yellow brings a bright and warming break from waves -

unyielding waves of strings and skins and song.

The shine of yellow sounds as a smile shown new

to a stranger on the street on a most difficult day.

From bright to tranquil shifts the melodic hues.

Shades of green take over the air and ear.

Soft fingers lay on soft strings and keys leading shades

of life anew to a position of reminding me of hope.

Opposed to hope. There is despair and with that comes

the shade of blue. And the tones. And the bends. It brings

dissonance and resolution played within a heartbeat

that expresses that heartbeat’s deepest and hidden hurt.

That despair brought by the color blue mingles

with the shades of red from before. The most passionate

hues of violet and purple begin to show through the inflamed

hurts and bad decisions and good decisions and loves lost.

And loves found fill this spectrum with more colors than

can be seen with the eyes. But only felt with the heart.

Consumed with ears opened to hear the colors of the emotions

that make up the rainbow that is the life we embrace.