I read the rainbow

I read the rainbow from top to bottom the other day
After my wild tempestuous fray
With names
Seven lines of wisdom so clean
In an arc of reality for me to glean

The red caused me to look inside
To see the centre of my own true pride
The orange showed me the warmth of the earth
That nature’s fire had brought to birth
The yellow framed a mainstay of trust
Around my mind’s reasoning thrust
The green bid me to look outside
To grade the passion in my sapien stride
The sky-blue arc bid me to exalt
In my own name
Nature’s grand and beautiful vault
As the indigo exposed in me the ferment of passion
Living deep in the well of my thinking fashion
The ultra violet arc of circumspection
Enlightened my feme mind
And the flower of my creative power
Burst open into a rainbow of its own
And as rainbow met rainbow
I danced and sang and celebrated life
As no fem had ever done before

Louise Gouëffic 1998