Only Color Left
I took for granted everything,
colors of every hue.
I didn’t know those colors
filled my world because of you.
So, like the fool I am
I let you go, too blind to see
that on my own I am just alone
and things turned out to be
where colors slowly slipped away,
the yellows, greens and blues.
And now the only color left…
is the memory of you.
Rolph David
Sat 22nd Mar 2025 06:48
Good morning Jeff,
It’s striking how you use the fading of colours to symbolise the emptiness left after losing someone important. The shift from a world full of vibrancy to a life reduced to only memories feels both poignant and powerful. There’s something deeply relatable in the speaker’s realisation of what was taken for granted, and how much that person brought to his world. The gradual loss of colour perfectly captures the quiet desolation of being left with just the past.
Regards,
Rolph