Everyone has a color. You\u2019re not a person if you don\u2019t.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know what you would be if you didn\u2019t but you should<\/p>\n
Pick one. Mine? Blue. My color is blue. Ultramarine to be exact.<\/p>\n
A glowing blue. One that makes the eyes feel fuzzy and warm.<\/p>\n
The type of warmth you get when your body has acclimated to surrounding<\/p>\n
Water and you don\u2019t want to get out. A blue that cradles and protects<\/p>\n
but is dark enough to hide secrets. Where mystery can float in black wisps<\/p>\n
like tentacles of an octopus on the ocean floor. Or like wings on a manta ray<\/p>\n
in the open water where the bluest of whales sing to each other.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Everyone has a color. I\u2019ve met red. Red and I have our disagreements,<\/p>\n
but the shades of violet we make when blend (between sheets) and in<\/p>\n
our minds are vast. We discover things about each other, Red and I.<\/p>\n
I have Purple, not grape (even the word seems as artificial as the flavor)<\/p>\n
But lavender blended with merlot, was this purple. She is one of my<\/p>\n
Very favorites. The coolness of our colors blends like the last<\/p>\n
vibrato of an evening sunset or the first chord of a sunrise symphony.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve met most of the colors attached to the humans. Too many to list.<\/p>\n
Each blends in one way or another and my people are the coolest of colors<\/p>\n
(my fur does not do well with the heat) Emerald. Aqua. Turquoise. Viridian.<\/p>\n
Cerulean. Lapis, Violet. Colors of waves in a waning sunlight. Revealing the<\/p>\n
Darkness. These are mine. They stay with me. Those and any on the spectrum.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Everyone has a color. I want you to be mine. Come swim with me amongst my waves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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