yellow

the colour of naivety
harmless with unhurried quality
yet innocently, unsuspectingly
it possesses underestimated ability
an oft-overlooked power
to fuse itself with others
and magically transforms colours
into greater shades of wonders

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Yellow.
Isn’t directly my favourite colour.
But I’ve always understood its power...
Never failed to feel its presence...
in the analogous palette of the world.
It's there in the cheerful petals of my favourite orange gerberas.
It’s there in anticipation of sunset, true beauty at the end of daylight.
It’s there in the sparkling stars, brightening the distant night sky with hope.
It’s there in the highlights of autumn, capturing shades of sunset in a season.

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When I was very much younger...
I’d look at my coloured pencils and think to myself...
If I could ever be a coloured pencil, I’d wish to be in yellow...

My yellow-coloured pencil...
Always terribly much shorter...
than all the other colours.
And although a primary colour...
it works best as companion to others…
Soothing fiery reds into harmonious shades of orange...
Uplifting subdued blues into joyous tones of green...

Though always leaving the world much earlier
than all the other colours...

I’d like to think that my yellow-coloured pencils truly lived life to the fullest.

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So when you wake up tomorrow, ask yourself…

What is the colour of your day?

Is it missing some yellow?



Listen to
Yellow by Coldplay



A random entry inspired by the line...
"... it's never hard to be ordinary if you feel ordinary and the paleness of surrender becomes the colour of Eddie's days".
From "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" by Mitch Albom.