First there was nothing.
Then one thing.
Then fractions.
First there was blackest black.
Then lightest white.
Then refractions.
How blue is different from red
is different from yellow.
Their cousins of musical notes
in harmony inspire complementary colors.
As bees love flowers
with colors not seen by me
Humans love color.
From the methodical Rembrant
To brash Pollack.
My breath split by the reed a flute creates a tone.
As light refracted by the prisms of our eyes create cornicopia.
Every cell sheds lumens
and wonder what color.
A lumen from a distant star
arriving long after the original star has gone cold.
How our bioluminescence persists ever outward
after we’ve become salt.
Vibrations and rainbows.
Stoics and emotion.
Pick your channel.
Pick your color.