A/N: Random freeverse. Tell me what you think, lovelies.


colours

i.

Sirius is grey

eyes like steel - unflinching, unwavering, (cold, mad)

he smells like grey too

like storm clouds and fog and unlit cigarettes

and he is always somewhere in between

not black, or a Black (though he has that smile)

but he does not seem white to Remus either because

he is made of shadows, he is not yet a ghost

like an old photograph, Remus thinks

nice to look at but

not really any use if you want to really live

(he died behind grey prison bars)

ii.

Tonks is different

she is a whirl of colour and light

and she cuts through the grey clouds

with her bubblegum laugh and bubblegum hair

and blinding, technicolour smiles

she has barely started being, yet

and time stretches out before her

a road paved with a thousand different hues

she just wants to explore it, but

all the colour seemed nice at first

now Remus is old and

it's starting to hurt his eyes

iii.

he thinks the grey might be a part of him

entwined in the tawny strands of his hair

he doesn't think it will ever leave

(even if he wanted it to)

but he doesn't

all he can do is reminisce

just try to bask in the glow of warm memories

but they have faded

and next to the grey

the colours just look brighter

and one thing he knows is that

his eyes will adjust, in time