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What Does Blue Mean to You?
Cécile McLorin Salvant
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What does blue mean to you? And what can yellow do for you?
And how do two patches of orange
On a dark and dreary quilt change your life?
Feed your need
Your hunger for color
When will green come into view?
A sunlit and shimmering pasture wet with dew
An emerald far in the distance that we've been galloping to
Barefoot and bloody
Winded and tired and sweaty
A black buzzard follows us
Gleefully smelling our donning detritus
We hide in a cornfield caressing, converging
Concealing ourselves with gold
To burnish our bristling souls
Two kernels that cannot be sold
What does red mean to you
When all that you've hoped for is dead?
When there's so much unfixable pain
And your only dream is a velvet ribbon
A ribbon the color of blood, blood, blood, blood
Of blood
Of blood
Glowing embers long after a fire has gone out
Glowing embers, the heat remains and burns