Here is one of the primal pigments :
Red.
red, conveying love and death and hate and war-
mix with any other colour to make warmer;
too much and you have a bloody mess.
a drop and it is eye-catching, heart catching
sustained and it burns as a candle, as a naked flame.
Passion burns too
ignites you as a phoenix
who flies away from the ashes.
Embers are red
flickering
banked with a high hot heat,
it keeps itself warm as the night cools around it.
Vermilion
Scarlet
A name, a shoe, a face, a kiss
an action that marks you forever.
Red Rage was there when you swung the axe
and cleaved her head
her life seeping over your hands;
it was present, screaming, at your birth
and mine,
It will linger uneasily around you when you die.
Red is everything
or nothing
like us
a wavelength in the spectrum.
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