Colors

Let me tell you about colors.

First came yellow. Bright golden sand in the afternoon sun, the sun white-hot, the sand golden, changing shades every second, a distraction...The color of light. When you see people in this color, you can trust them.

Blue. A lovely word that rolls off your tongue, a lovely color, a piece of sky. This you can stare at forever without taking your eyes off for a minute...

Red. Lust. Love. Loss. Blood. Passion. A rose by any other name?? This is a color that once you're smeared in it, there's no way you can get it off you. Or get it off the canvas. There it will remain under all the other colors you've painted over it to hide the shade. Other colors change when mixed with this one - you'd get wine red, lavender, lilac...so you need to be sure of what color you need. And deal with red in your own way. Blood congeals. The bruises change from red to purple to brown to yellow and disappear. Disappear. Maybe.

Black. Night. The color of a certain kind of fear.

Oh, other fears are orange-red. This is the fear that you can feel permeating throughout your body, like molten lava...it burns and freezes on you at the same time. The lake of fire. A kind of hell.