Rainbow

Photo by Jorge Fernadez Salas @jorgefdezsalas

Rainbow

A rainbow is a message revealed.

A rainbow is a story told.

A rainbow is a symbol inprismed.

Within those tiny raindrops concealed

Is an important message revealed:

White is only a  man-made illusion!

Give it up, stop the bloody confusion.

In the sky throughout all our history

It’s always been there, saying, “Mystery!”

Through the splitting of the light

Women have seen the message bright.

All people are womb born – it’s magical

And love a threat to war – it’s practical.

Yet, this message remains in a bottle,

One that man can easily throttle.

The sky says, ‘Tame not the elements so,’

For even the eternal rainbow may go.

A rainbow is a story told:

At the end of which, a pot of gold.

Of animals in an Ark and fables

That we still believe through cables.

And in it we fashion a pot of luck

In which our modern world is stuck.

It tells a story of dark clouds and rain

And the moment we see the sun again.

It is the story of a mass extinction

and the urgent need for human cohesion.

Sadly, it will never come, and so we run

Headlong into disaster for our fun.

A rainbow is a symbol inprismed and

From the elements of pain chiselled.

In labour of people as a symbol of rights

Infringed upon by white men’s frights.

Get real, white men will always steal,

Because they do not know how to be real.

And so a flag must fly for the silenced voices

WHO cannot make their own damn choices.

The rainbow did not want to be this,

A thing of hope in a world amiss.

It just wanted to be alone in the sky,

Projecting beauty - its colours, not asking “Why?”

- by Michael Stolt

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