Colourful

Violet is the colour of the rich and the royals

Indigo is the name and colour of the dependable flying loyals

Blue is the colour of the sky that is reflected in the sea

Green is the colour of greed and envy reflected in the money we see(k)

Yellow is the colour of subdued golden - A gold mute?

Orange is the colour of its namesake fruit

Red is the colour of the blood that pulsates within

Red is the colour of passion that has its own chagrin

Red is the colour of birth and death

Red is what flows unseen and unheard through every breath

Red is the colour of love and fury

Red is the lifeblood of every jury (literally!)

The spectrum is hardly the be all and end all of what the eye can see

The undertones, overtones, shades and hues mean more than what they be

Colour is more than light

Colour defines more than sight

Colour isn’t so black and white

Colour provides meaning

Colour is a means of understanding

Colour is a way of communicating

Colour defines a person, a race

Colour defines a choice, a face

Colour defines style, a phase

Colour (or the lack of it) can limit and delimit any space

Colour colours my every phrase

Colour lightens and darkens,

Colour brightens, and sharpens my world

You bring colour to my life

You know who you are and you know what it means when I say

‘Colourful’