Disclaimer: Nope, don't own anything but the poetry.

This comes from some really, really old song lyrics I wrote many years ago, and from the idle musing about the fact that if dogs are unable to see in colour, would inu-youkai be able to?...


Black and White

You see the world in black and white
No colours mar that keen eyesight
No shade of gray as darkness falls
Eyes wide shut to wonders all.

Darkness falls so quickly when
There's none to see what light intends
Blind, you stumble in decline
No ray of sun to search for, find;

Can colour, shade, and hue hold true
if one remembers not?

Clear cut your purpose, empty heart,
You strive and fight but fall apart
where none can see it. Nature, not
the cold facade that pain begot...

Bleeding freely, the rainbow runs
in myriad oozing trails from sun
Moonlight hides the trace of tear
Without colour, the way is clear...

Understanding flees in face of fear
and yet...

Within that empty heart of thine,
Hidden deep within the mind,
The remnants of long ago
that fate, it seems, would overthrow...

...when once the petals gleamed with hue
...when once it was your young heart knew
No polar opposites, black and white,
but a limitless blend of radiant light...

Emotions, more than wrong or right,
Happiness, sorrow...love...

This, your legacy, great son of clan;
Forgotten, ignored, despised, but can
you truly live this life you choose
when deep inside...the dazzling hues

Still linger, fighting in your blood
Creating havoc as they flood.
Suppressed, they rest uneasily
within their bonds, a raging sea;

She stands before me now, her cheerful smile,
One hand half-extended...

Throw off these dreary bonds of white,
Leave the black for dark of night.
You deny emotion, for you don't know
what will happen when colours flow...

Yet they hover still, after all,
influence upon the hard stone wall
you call a heart, and though you aren't aware
Of the mysterious feelings residing there...

This happy child in front of me,
with not a care in the world
...

The flower in her hand is bright,
A common thing, but still the light
within her eyes shines happily, for she
has found a treasure to share with me.

I understand this not, of course,
but laughter glisscendos from her source,
and though I must be wrong, it seems to me
as though her hand hold orange and green
...


Comments are appreciated, and with this new system of fanfic's will probably be answered. Thank you all for taking the time and effort to read through this! (Oh, and if any of you can think of a better title...(begs)...)