Colorblind in the Dark

Colorblind in the dark

Red or green, flags unmarked

Mental notes for another day 

I’d come back, to myself I say

Piling up, unawares

Overwhelmed with none to share

The feeling wrong but tucked away

Was called too sensitive too many days

So don’t be surprised if it takes many years

To come up for air admitting through tears 

The realization I only just finally faced

The flag colors lit up to show their true place

The red ones so many to make me look dumb

An explosion of exploits still under their thumb 

Slowly attached the puppeteer strings

The holes in my back, the daggers now wings

To carry me forward, my vision reinstated 

To see in the light, an ability fated.