The Colour You Can’t Find
by cricketjeff on December 29, 2013. © Jeff Green, All rights reserved
If you choose to shine a red light on a thing that’s plain and white,
That thing becomes the colour of the lamp that shines so bright.
Your torch could be a green one and the thing would then be green
But this does not apply to just one colour often seen.
However hard you’re searching there’s no brown light to be found
Why can’t we ever make a light the colour of the ground?
It’s so easy when you’re painting, splash some green into the red
And a muddy brown impression will be wedged inside your head
Every man and every woman that you’ll ever meet is brown,
It’s the colour of a piece of wood, the mood behind a frown.
I understand the spectrum, I remember Roy G Biv,
But Nature loves her secrets, there are gifts she will not give.
You see more brown things every day than any other hue
It’s the colour things will trend to when they are no longer new
But how can eyes perceive it? They just capture beams of light
And there are not any brown beams, so the image can’t be right.
It’s a puzzle that perplexes as it gives my mind a twist
Why is there so much brown around when brown does not exist!
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