colours of unproportioned grandeur
of bright hues filled with warmth
blinding like the sun, and then
turning sober, soft, bottled
yet beautiful like the canaries that sing
during the quiet hours of the morning
or the stain a rose would leave when rubbing a soft petal
between nimble fingers
of muted colours that speak loud, swirling,
deep, an endless abyss of what-ifs, what could be, and what is
of bold pigments rich in history, crush down copper mixed in with
linseed oil, and where the renaissance brought forth its existence
where frescoes meet with the sky.