BURN (Wattys2015?)

color 2.0

she loves yellow

but she likes soft yellows

a yellow that you could snuggle into

with a cup of a coffee and a good book

something pale and fragile and kind

she doesn't know that She also loved yellow

(but She loved a bold yellow

bright and happy and the center of attention

like a daisy or like the Sun)

she loves blue

but she says it's a colder color

(i think blue is calming and serene

it helps my anxiety)

she says blue reminds her of shivers and fuzzy socks

and cold oatmeal that you have to eat

because you're all out of milk for cereal

she says she only loves blue

because i am blue, i love blue, and blue is me

she loves purple

nothing too eye-catching

something like lilac

"a cup of tea on a lazy thursday,

when all i'm wearing is a pair of wool socks

with embroidered purple kittens

and a worn-out button down that you own"

something that smells fresh and tastes bittersweet

she loves red

even though to her it can never be soft enough

or pale or kind enough

she just likes it once in a while

because otherwise it's too much

"it has a taste" she says

"that's sweet and exotic and passionate

but if you eat too much of it

you'll get sick"

she loves brown

it's simple and earthy

it's stable and clean

"like a subway ride in new york city,

with a paper grocery bag full

of tomatoes and celery and peppers of all colors and sizes.

and you're in rain boots, probably an orangish yellow with polka dots.

but it's not raining, you just like to wear rain boots

so you have an excuse to splash in a mud puddle

just in case you even find a mud puddle"

she loves colors

because they're music to her eyes

she can hear the colors singing quietly

and it makes her happy

"it'd be terrible to live in a world without colors

but if you'd never seen a color

then you wouldn't even know what you were missing

and you wouldn't ever need to see more"