11. red

The color of a life beginning

Pools haphazard on metal floors,

Wiped upon a cloth too clean

To be cast aside once more.

In the realm of gravity

The scarlet tracers all arrive,

A web of war and policy

Spread across the skies.

Later, in the shadowed room,

Eyes closed in muted grief and soaring bliss,

Salt taste of her tears lay on his lips -

Parted gently to receive this kiss.

Life is rife with strife and joy

Passions consume, create, and then destroy.

Our lives begun in blood and gore

Seem doomed to crimson hours in pain and war.

12. grey

Across the grey and barren plain,

Awash in cheerless rays and rich disdain

Crowned by ghostly wisps that wane

Then coalesce and wax again,

Our thoughts begin to stir, expand

Seeded, nurtured by this nightmare land.

Our sorrowed memories take root,

They grow, they strive, they push.

And once again, remember we

The gentle love of our mothers' touch.

The Nest accepts, and with a gentle hoot

They press closer in protective rush

And the remembered family

Does not sting - overmuch.

Thrusters roar!

A thrum, a battle cry

In our turn, we reply.

Here they come, to take our home.

13. white

What are you, now?

Prisms take the perfect light

And shatter it in violence;

Find the shards and set them right

Try to reclaim innocence.

It's too late, the damage done;

Chaos only just contained.

Knowing what you've become;

My Brother: Resurrect, Unstained.

Remember the red of the blood you spilled?

Remember the blue of your brother's eyes?

Think on the black grief you willed…

The copper love you denied.

No more doubt, released from love,

Blood, with easy grace, slides from you.

No longer burdened by your fears,

You, diamond stern, are forged anew.

I want my brother back.

14. black

The void between the stars my home

Ever doomed am I to roam.

The families I have known

Long since to new ports were blown.

Come soar beside me within the deeps-

The void is cold and cruel and plays for keeps

And I am warm and cruel and taste of sweets

But I will woo you fiercely 'til you sleep.

Who can catch me? Who will try?

Not one can snare me. No, not I.

Chase me through the hidden ways,

Kiss me in the Rishi Maze,

Then to my home I'll flee

Where I wander wild and free.

15. blue

Once the herald of hope and renewal,

Blue is now a hallowed hue.

Given time to accept my grief

And overcome my disbelief,

Maybe I can grow beyond this view.

Right now the sorrow is too close

To the Seat of my Heart to depose.

Every glimpse of clear blue skies

Or crystal water cuts like knives.

I seek respite within the shadows.

The deeps of space are dark and dim

The scattered stars but pale gems.

Out here I can think in clean, hard lines.

I outrun the thoughts of happier times

That enfold me in salty hued remembrance.