Colours [Poem]

[Amethyst]

White

In a room full of white walls

And hardwood

And empty dreams and broken things--

Or was it the reverse?

With no windows nor colours

Just an ocean

Of promises and dust--

What's the difference?

A kindly man set a paintbrush

Down with a simple instruction--

A foolish man set a paintbrush

And a curse.

[Amethyst]

Blue

For the second time

An ocean made its home in

My head

For the first time

A flash-flood made its home in

My bed

For the last time

I'll make your heart at home in

The ruin

Of the girl that you're in

Time to break her heart

And how can you keep swimming just by

Taking time for kissing a lie

That you keep dismissing goodbye

So I just keep wishing you'd--

Well, we both already have.

[Amethyst]

Red

In the sand, in the sunset,

In your arms,

In a total lack of spirit, soul or

Something, please just anything that cares

So we kissed, so we danced there

And danced there

And danced there

So my heart skipped a beat

On a record

Just another broken record

Just another broken

Bone

And flesh

And steel

And blood

And danced there

And screamed

And struck

And slew

And danced there

Midnight passed long ago, love.

Our pumpkins await.

[Amethyst]

Yellow

So how could they have hated you?

You were a butterfly

In the goldenrod

And I, just a moth.

And how could you have fallen for

The precious shadow

On which you land?

Which none of us deserved.

And how could they have tarnished you?

Your wings were painted bright,

In scathing flame.

Since then, you cast no shadow.

So how could I have carried you?

When you burned me too?

When the cinders soared

To the hardwood floor

And the freshest coat of

Curse

[Amethyst]

Black

And the walls went up in flames

Golden-seared, crimson gushed

And blew oceans forth.

And the walls, just as empty

As the day on which

A spiteful man set a paintbrush

But now-- dark.

Maybe this was my colour.

Maybe emptiness is a colour.

Maybe hollow,

Maybe cold,

May belong to me.

A broken girl set a paintbrush

On fire.