Red

• Ingrid Holden, Grade 5
• Poetry
• 2007

The colour of life and love.
It wraps around you,
A blanket of energy, of power
and compelling heat.
Taste the twisted emotions,
Happiness and sorrow, good and evil.
The bittersweet feeling of life and death.
A place of soul and vision.
Dream of a land of fire, of conflagration.
A blazing landscape.
Out of the ashes comes new life.
Red is the colour of its life blood.