Rainbow - BTS

Rainbow: Teaser

Colours can signify anything - emotion, sensitivity, individuality, power and weakness. They can create and destroy us in moments. And how would we ever know which is which? How could we ever truly understand things not made for our level of intelligence?

They paint a picture of a person without truly understanding the effect they have
And indeed, that picture isn't complete, is never complete, can never be completed by anyone

It's a group project that won't be finished until the lights die out and the colours fade into monochrome
We all try our best to get involved, but we've never seen the bigger picture we're painting with these colours
Maybe we never will

colours trap us into cages of expectation, stereotypes impossible to break,
barriers constructed by our own minds that hold back progress
In a never ending, never changing process
that we can't escape. No matter how hard we try.

But maybe some people are made to break the mould,
formed with the sole fate of shattering the fences that force us apart

the rules that tear down families and destroy the lives of innocents

the regulations separating us into boxes of  'man' and 'woman'
'Heterosexual' or 'homosexual' or 'anything in between'
Forcing us to label ourselves before we truly understand what those labels actually mean

They're pioneers, fighters without weapon or harsh word,
heralded as heroes by those who see what they truly stand for.

Those who struggle in the dark, holding up their representative,
those who just need to feel heard in order to survive. Those who curl up in the shadows, hoping never to be seen, because to be seen is to be rejected and destroyed. Those who just want everyone to accept that they really do exist. They're not making it up.

Sometimes all you need is one person revealing your story
someone who understands what it's like to live in the shadows
someone who can take the weight of responsibility on their shoulders and carry it up countless mountains without breaking a sweat

Sometimes all we need is a group of people who are able to open the doors
and reveal what's hiding and what's trapped behind barriers we created
many millennia ago, without even realising that they were created. All we need is the reassurance that we're valid to another person, that we are real, and truly exist. Maybe that group is the one which will create that feeling of validity. We have no way of knowing. Not yet.

For white light shines bright, and seems solid and unchangeable, dividing everything into clear sections of black and white.
But it is created by the rainbow. It's created by the merging together of countless colours. Countless people all coming together and holding hands.

Maybe that's the picture we need to create. Maybe that's the art we need to work on. Maybe that's the tale we need to tell. We just don't know it yet.

Well, it's time to learn that story. It's time to open those gates, with the help of seven young men who managed to unlock them for the rest of us. It's time to know how the rainbow came together in the first place. How the light aligned in such a way that it brightened countless lives and strengthened the peace we've been calling for from the very beginning.

This is where it all began. And where it ended.

And everything in between.