Colour me right

(on the eve of the festival of colours, Holi, here’s my poem written on 2 March 2018)

 

Colour me now

But colour me right

Not as a mix

Each clear in sight…

 

Clear in sight

Distinct and distinguished

Not as a smear

Where colour is extinguished…

 

Colours extinguished

Turn into an obscure shade

Diversity is felled

When unity is a cutting blade…

 

Blade cuts to divide

But unity tends to expedite loss

Assorted strands ripped

togetherness goes for a toss…

 

The dance of togetherness

Needs different types of moves

For it is only variety

That makes an interesting groove…

 

The groove of merger

For different parts, is a bane

Insistence on uniformity

Forces individualities to wane…

 

None should wane

Each should be in clear sight

Colour me now

But please colour me right!

 

- Pravin K Sabnis

 

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