Green and Red
Green and red
Are the colours of life.
Green and red
The vitality
That brings dreams,
Opens eyes
And gives birth
To awareness.
Out of all the colours
Of the rainbow
It came down
To red and green.
Out of the fetid mud,
The rock and soil
That is brown,
Comes life.
And brown
Is no more
Than red and green.
Opher 26.12.2018
Haemoglobin and chlorophyll are the two substances that have most symbolized life – blood and sap.
These two – related chemicals – have given the possibility of life and consciousness.
It occurred to me that red and green make brown – the colour of soil.