by Wandering Muse

Created on: March 04, 2010

Here is one of the primal pigments :

Red.

red, conveying love and death and hate and war-

mix with any other colour to make warmer;

too much and you have a bloody mess.

a drop and it is eye-catching, heart catching

sustained and it burns as a candle, as a naked flame.

Passion burns too

ignites you as a phoenix

who flies away from the ashes.

Embers are red

flickering

banked with a high hot heat,

it keeps itself warm as the night cools around it.

Vermilion

Scarlet

A name, a shoe, a face, a kiss

an action that marks you forever.

Red  Rage was there when you swung the axe

and cleaved her head

her life seeping over your hands;

it was present, screaming, at your birth

and mine,

It will linger uneasily around you when you die.

Red is everything

or nothing

like us

a wavelength in the spectrum.

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