You have your blacks and blues.
Two colors I’ve never seen.
But those weren’t the only ones,
I also couldn’t see green.

Any and every color,
To see for once, I would pay.
For the only color I’d ever seen
Was the ominous color of grey.

People were called black and white,
But there was no significance to me.
I was clearly different from everyone else,
For I was color-blind, you see.

Most people who are color-blind
See colors but in a strange array.
I saw the word dully.
I saw it in a peculiar way.

Every day I walked a road
That no one else had traced.
I felt so alone and ostracized.
It was heartache I embraced.

To me, it was foolish
To judge by one’s skin.
Who would be created
To be shunned as a living sin?

Everyone was the same color.
Everyone was the same shade.
Everyone was somehow equal.
I believe that’s how we were made.

But as I look into the mirror,
I’m different without a doubt.
You see, I have no color.
I’m the odd one out.

Life is so much more than color.
It’s about reading between the lines.
I wish you all could see as I do,
Then the whole world could be color-blind.