Warning: mentions of suicide
My life was dull before you
There was only black, white, and
shades of grey
I had spent my whole life hiding in the
shadows
Where there was no light at all
Bad things kept popping up everywhere I looked
Which just made the world darker
I didn't know how the world could get any darker
But of course I didn't know just how dark it could get
I kept searching for those white moments
Those little moments of light and color
Color never came
But white did
White was when someone said "hi" to me
White was when someone smiled at me
White was when I won a game
White was when someone looked up to me
But those in between moments
Those shades of grey
Rarely came
There were about as frequent as atomic bombs used in combat
Those rare grey moments came
When someone took the time to talk to me
When I actually paid attention to the world
When something went my way
My life was dull before you
But then you added color
RED
red as the rose that blossomed this morning
red as the cardinal that sang to me
And then my life was dull again
I never thought I would see another red
But then came
Another color
Orange
orange as the carrots I harvested
orange as the sunset last night
Yet I knew it was just another shade of grey
