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Ealo Nigeria Freelancer @ Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba Akoko
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In colours.
<p>What do you see?</p><p>What do you think?</p><p>What do you feel?</p><p><br/></p><p>Violet, not violent.</p><p><br/></p><p>Azul, that is blue. I like that one.</p><p>Something about blue. I can't quite explain it.</p><p>Red with rage.</p><p><br/></p><p>Why keep all of that in?</p><p>Don't hit people just to let it out.</p><p><br/></p><p>Verde, green with envy.</p><p>Nah, imma win instead of whine.</p><p><br/></p><p>But why envy?</p><p><br/></p><p>Don't you ever feel bad for yourself?</p><p>You're projecting, in case you're not aware.</p><p><br/></p><p>Funny how we sometimes hate in others what we struggle to accept in ourselves.</p><p><br/></p><p>Amarillo, so full of light and beauty.</p><p>But too much shine, and it becomes nauseating.</p><p><br/></p><p>I stare, and that's what I feel.</p><p>Yellow, too yellow.</p><p><br/></p><p>Can something be too beautiful to look at?</p><p>Can brightness become blinding?</p><p><br/></p><p>Negro.</p><p>That vacant black.</p><p>The dominant colour.</p><p><br/></p><p>You can't go wrong with black.</p><p>Or can you?</p><p><br/></p><p>Not everyone sees what it projects.</p><p>There's something about black that can't really be put into words.</p><p><br/></p><p>The quiet. depth. and mystery.</p><p><br/></p><p>You just know you can start afresh on black</p><p><br/></p><p>No need to explain what came before the darkness.</p><p><br/></p><p>Just begin.</p><p><br/></p><p>Blanco.</p><p>White and bright.</p><p><br/></p><p>Too bright, perhaps.</p><p>It aches my eyes.</p><p><br/></p><p>Funny, isn't it?</p><p><br/></p><p>How one person's peace can be another person's discomfort.</p><p><br/></p><p>Me encanta lo oscuro.</p><p>I love the darkness.</p><p><br/></p><p>Oscuro instead of blanco.</p><p>Darkness instead of white.</p><p><br/></p><p>Ayy, ayy!</p><p><br/></p><p>But what do you see?</p><p>What do you think?</p><p>What do you feel?</p><p><br/></p><p>Perhaps the colour was never the whole story.</p><p>Perhaps it's what we bring to it.</p><p><br/></p><p>You know red is just red until anger gives it a voice.</p><p><br/></p><p>Or green is just green until comparison makes it envy.</p><p>black is just black until someone finds a beginning in it.</p><p><br/></p><p>And maybe white doesn't have to mean peace to everyone.</p><p><br/></p><p>Do we just see colours?</p><p>Or maybe we see the same world, but colour it differently.</p><p><br/></p><p>In colours, I see you.</p><p>In colours, you project.</p><p>In colours, we live.</p>

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