A Colourless Rainbow

A Colourless Rainbow

When you think of rainbows,

You think of bright and beautiful colours,

Lighting up our dreary skies,

You think of hope and wonder,

A fleeting beauty, so magical to the eye,

But the one I sit under,

Is colourless and grey,

It follows me around, every day,

It has no end,

Nor do I know, where it begins,

It darkens my days and empties my soul,

It hurts my heart to tell you all,

How could this rainbow exist at all?

Why have the colours abandoned and left?

Leaving my world gloomy and so depressed,

Depressed is an adjective,

I had never felt,

But now it lives,

In all my skies

Safiya, I know our skies are now grey,

But I will sit here and paint us a rainbow,

Each & every day.

~

Zo X