In Color, a poem of the atypical

[image error]Pexels.com" data-medium-file="https://luciditylamb.files.wordpress...." data-large-file="https://luciditylamb.files.wordpress...." src="https://luciditylamb.files.wordpress...." alt="Colorful Abstract Art" class="wp-image-1278" />Photo by Steve Johnson on Pexels.comShe doesn’t know what she wantsto be named,only that the tea-stained nameshe’s heard over decades of being talked atdoesn’t fit.She’s a survivor but her feelings getpurple sometimes.She sees in colorwhat others only hear.Words are rainbow realities.And she’s confused for a moment whenIn a casual conversationThey say “now you understand”Because she understood before.But they are only now realizing it.And she wants to tell them inscratchy red soundsThat they are dense dull greybecause they think theydid something sparkly pinkWhen really it’s that shefinally was able tomake them translucent that sheunderstands like sky bluebut not that she already understood.And it’s okay if they think they’re forest green.It’s okay to not look like a winner.But sometimes she istaupe tiredOf how they think she is stupid.Maybe he was rightAnd she doesn’t really know anything.But she thinks she knows thatShe is not what they think she isOr who they think she is.And she can see the words.And she can smell the colorsAnd taste sound in hues of sunshine and storms.And there is a nameless sense thatShe has never been good at interpreting.Sometimes her thoughts don’t think in words at all.And she wonders if life is this confusing -This rust orange and lime green plaidFor everyone oranyone else.This chaos of emotion and auburn literalityAnd vibrance and the unnamed yellow sense.Or if to everyone else,It’s all lined up straight and clean and periwinkle and creamLike pastel waves of sound.Photo by Lucidity Lamb[image error]Pexels.com" data-medium-file="https://luciditylamb.files.wordpress...." data-large-file="https://luciditylamb.files.wordpress...." src="https://luciditylamb.files.wordpress...." alt="" class="wp-image-1918" />Photo by FWStudio on Pexels.com