Introduction :
In literature, colors are often used as metaphors to represent a particular emotion. For instance, red can be used for love or sometimes for anger.
This poem explores an overwhelming burst of emotions where a specific color is attributed to each emotion that is experienced and ends on a note of longing for these emotions to be less complicated and intricate.
“Palette of emotions”
Splitter, splatter! Splitter, splatter!
The weather outside matches my mood bitter.
The droplets trickling down the window panes
Are simultaneous with the tears from my eyes’ drains.
Even the lightning seems to frown
As the damned dam in me is ready to break down.
A palette of emotions bursts inside me
As the dam breaks and lets its contents free.
Dull and dumb, like the gloomy grey
I want to scream, break and kick in dismay,
I want to forget all around me
From this mental cage I want to be free.
The darkness in me outpaces the one outside.
I feel like I’m on the world’s blacker side.
Usually I love that colour but now I hate it the most
Because I’m dying inside feeling like a ghost.
My face and heart are splattered with red
Because anger and embarrassment can’t be shared.
I’m tired of the bloodshed in my mind.
I’m feeling like a loveless contract I’ve signed.
Even the sun is hidden in cloud dark
Unable to provide hope’s yellow spark.
I’m in dire need of encouragement
And feeling like to hell I’m sent.
I want b don’t want green.
My veins green with envy are seen
But I also crave a renewed life in myself
Because I feel like my worth is currently smaller than an elf.
I keep shuffling my thoughts, searching for tranquility.
I’m utterly hungry for joy in simplicity.
In this jumbled-up life I need the clarity of sight.
I need someone to paint my harlequin palette back to white.
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