Rainbow

celebrate the colours of life

this is the green sand
above which
life stands barren
like a eunuch.

this is the white wing
which took me higher
once when my blackness
was deliriously untouchable,

and this my crimson red
which burnt holes
in your wincing looks
in ancient rage of gods

there is also the blue dome
past the insipidity of gray skies
which stares back into me
in a forlorn impish gaze


how i wish i could form
a rainbow beneath my wings
in rainy summer afternoons.