light shines white
as if purity
were the whole of it
out of broken light fall rainbow pieces
spectrum colours curved into difference
component hues
the stranded radiation with which
everything is made or illuminated
purity does not live in light alone
but in all the refractions of its unbending
our pale light and colour
join us to together
till we are all things and one
subtracted we leave a tainted brilliance
where the light remaining shifts into shadow
and pure white fades
runs to black
or pigmented absence
light shines pure
when the whole of it is complete
all colours contained
© BH, 2025
Against the present current of antipathy to difference, where so much of what we think or do is considered deviant - and that deviance is further decried as an assault on the ‘normal’ or ‘the same’, here’s a thought.
Fundamentally, the light we see as 'white' is made up of all the colours of visible light together - likewise, the light and colour we don’t see. All our differences add up to our purity, not the other way round. Otherwise, there is no light at all.
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