Achromatopsia. A condition in which a person is totally color blind.
Achromatopsia, a condition in which a person can only perceive the colors black and white and
shades of gray.
I was born fine. Can perceive colors perfectly and have been in love with colors as a kid. I was
in love then, but it might be with naivety.
I drew a red then, but for a moment, when I felt like the time has stopped, when everything I
hear is a muffled sound, when breathing became a chore, for a moment, everything around me
turned gray.
I tried coloring the world, with splashes of red and yellow, with a little bit of green and blue, with
a streak of purple and orange, but each time a sob rips out of my mouth, everything would turn
back to gray.
I might have been desperate once, to seek the comfort of alcohol and tempted for a smoke, it
could have been worse but what a beautiful mess that could have been, to drag and blow a
smoke that could potentially suffocate the dread that follows me from time to time.
I hated the dullness then, of how cold everything feels, of how lonely the world has been.
I tried coloring the world once, but sometimes, gray is enough.
I tried shutting every color then, to color everything black, but one day, gray becomes tolerable.
Gray was more than enough.
YOU ARE READING
THE HUE OF ME
Poetrysometimes, color and emotion goes side by side sometimes, color represents something we never realized they do
