When I am thinking deeply
I see the world in brown:
The colors mix completely
And in each other drown
Creating a commingling
Expressing every view
Through merger and intriguing
Revealing what is true -
When I am looking death-ward
I see the world in black
Where the ungentle shepherd
Leads toward a wayward track,
Where millions of creatures
Feed on the human ghosts
And lawyers, dressed as preachers,
Proclaim the heaven lost.
When I look at the clouds
I see the world in gray:
The hopes and the doubts
In them together play
And through their interaction -
All facets merged in one -
Bring lightning and refraction
Of rays of setting sun.
When I am with my loved one
I see the world in pink
The spirit-cloud above me
Reshaping all I think
Feeling my essence nurtured
And brought into sweet love -
Her heart, like gentle orchid,
Enfolds me in a glove.
When I burn with desire
I see the world in red:
My heart becomes a pyre
Inside which burns my head
And as it turns to embers
Where all things fleshly die,
My spirit soars and clambers
And falls into the sky.
When I am full of glamor
The world is yellow, and
It turns into a lemon
And into shifting sand
From which, with just some patience,
I make a lemonade
That feeds the respiration
And all of me pervades.
When I am feeling open
I see the world in green
In which I feel and hope and
Know goodliness and sin
And, seeing the whole landscape
From elevated view
Conquer the inner wasteland
And make it bloom anew.
When I am full of willpower
I see the world in blue
And, certain, build a tower
That seeks attainment to
The transcendental wisdom
Of sky and ocean waves
Which holds the truth and freedom
And love that goodness saves.
When I am full of soul
In indigo am I
Feeling the cosmic whole
Expressed within the sky
That reaches earth with wisdom
Of millions of stars
And nurtures me, assisting
The healing of the scars.
When I am in a prayer
I feel the violet light
Reaching my spirit, where
It casts the lies aside -
Burning into the essence
With penetrating rays
And teaching many lessons,
From gratitude to praise -
And after darkest hour
Of darkest of the night
I'm happy as a flower
To see the world in white.
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