Colors

As a child I knew what I liked

And I wasn’t ashamed

I would force my friends to watch my favorite shows

We made Google sites dedicated to roleplaying (yeah, yeah, ik)

I was unapologetic

I lost sight of that girl years ago

I loved a lot of things at the same time

I wanted to be a triple threat

Singer, Actor, Artist

I wanted to do it all

My favorite colors were:

Pink

Purple

Blue

Funny how the universe works

In high school, my favorite color was yellow

I used to hate yellow

Highlighters hurt my eyes

I associated all yellows with that color

I felt this way for most of my preteen years

Until my best friend Nja showed me

What yellow can look like

Yellow was her favorite color at the time

She taught me how to appreciate hues that I used to ignore

Suddenly it was all i saw

I would look for yellow and smile

Something I thought was ugly for so long

Because of a single shade

Was now something I embraced

I decided green was my favorite color at one point

It’s soft and calm

Like a reminder from mother nature

One day my friend bought me a gift in green

It was a great gift but it was bright neon

My all-or-nothing brain started thinking

“Oh, maybe I don’t like green that much”

One shade scared me away from something I loved

I must’ve been 12 or so

It took a decade for me to realize

Now I’m 23 and I can confidently say

My favorite color is green