They say red is for sacrifice, danger, courage;
roses and blood and love and goodbyes.
They say orange is for joy and change.
Yellow is for optimism and creativity--
cowardice and insanity.
They say, green is for health and good luck,
and jealousy.
Blue, they say, is for serenity, reliability, wisdom, inspiration...
They say, purple is luxury and power and ambition, mystery and independence and magic, wealth and peace and devotion--
And they could go on endlessly,
around and around,
listing off in-between hues and shades and saturations memorized over the course of years.
I never did understand them.