Uncolorblind

StartWhen I was young

My world was drenched in purple

Gleaming with glitter

As I bounded over each hurdle

Ashamed and shy

Still never sure why

outlying on the spectrum

I was lost the the naked eye

Then, as the years went by

Reality got heavy

vibrance waned with a sigh

Spellbound by

A civilized  lull

conditioned for complacency

as my surroundings went dull

The more I was told

The less I could trust

Symbols were scolding

My imagination lacked luster

The colorwheel spun

And I was dealt gray

But my head veiled a hue

That refused to fade

Symphonies

Sonnets

Coursing my veins

A pallette so engrained

It threaded my DNA

I longed for the anomaly:

Bursting in fractals

Rushing my blood

Shocking my nerves

Crashing through my heart with a thud ...

But my awakening  was subtle

A puzzle seeped  through the wait

For its in the eye of the beholder

That a pixel translates

It wasn't a rainbow that shot through the sky

But rather a photograph

Where darkness developed the dye

When that image emerged and was flooded with light

It still wasn't spectacular

The contrast was slight

Ideas dissolved

I became like wet paint

Tagging all that I touched

Until my  world was less plain

change was a

Construct

The pigments I expelled

Were never boosted by luck.

We thirst for the stories

With earth shattering arcs

Then forget to be patient

And finsh our art



Most lives fall short

Of a blockbuster plot

Then we worry we missed our shot

On the other side it's green

To the the extent of a screen

But my existence is an experience that can never be bought

When it starts to feel like

50 shades of mundane

I remember that I have the

Power to create -

One brushstroke at a time

To cast my color day by day,

So by the end of my life

Nothing will be left gray.