Yechy Poems | Examples

Colour Blind

- Colour Blind -         
Aha! The lad has achromatopsua. 
It's incurable and hereditary.          
Then my mother fainted.  
Since there was no cure for this dreaded disease, 
will they put me up for adoption?  
I wondered if they would let me live.               
For colouring the rivers brown instead of the usual blue, 
the teacher caned me when I was nine.                          
Red became ridiculous and yellow was yechy too , 
but grass was green and sky was blue 
and I wondered what to do.                                 
Denied as an artist - betrayed by my eyes , 
everyone telling me what colours to believe                       
until  my daughter told me      
I'm painting pictures with words