The Color Inside

This post is a part of our International Voices column, written by international UT students & staff, for UT students & staff. Enjoy!

An artist captures the sunset light sequence at Skyspace designed by James Turrell.

 

Clouded comfort, in silence we lie,

And I know we are stardust,

a part of the sky.

 

A sun that’s set in its ways past,

On Light I reflect,

And I contrast.

 

Winds that carry the hues I dream,

You say I blush,

The colours scheme.

 

Dreams dance in sunshine chrome,

Sweet saffron spice,

you take me home.

 

Mystified you watch with rose-tinted gaze,

I’m a mahogany inferno,

Alive and ablaze.

 

And I feel blue in lavender and purple,

For even autumn leaves,

A fall is ephemeral.

 

Ink turns to darker shades of the night,

I wonder if we burn,

someone else’ s borrowed light.

 

The painter paints a shade we became,

An artist wonders,

if it needs a name.

 

As the colours rhyme to sing their ballad,

I knew I belonged,

In an artist’s palette;