Magenta
From red to violet
Decreasing in wavelength
Increasing in frequency
Red on one end, violet on the other
A clean, linear spectrum
Yet we must remember
Colour is more than just the visible light spectrum
Outside of human perception
Let’s not forget
Such only describes spectral colours that conveniently ignore
A human marriage of two ends
Distinct from green
The linear fusion
In-between
No one paints with a palette
Of nanometers or terahertz
The colours we truly care about
Are those inseparable
From interpretation and emotion
Hue, saturation, lightness
And attributed meaning
The colours we truly care about
Are those we perceive
As humans
It would be incredibly stupid
To pit colours against each other
As if they existed on two ends
Of the same axis
When the spectrum of opinion
Is a triggered porcupine
An explosion of variables with more trajectories and inconsistencies
One can ever measure
It does no one favours
To reduce ourselves and others
To flattened colours
Used to describe barely anything half the time
With no interest to clarify
What really is in between
It’s not about
The best of both worlds
The better of two evils
Or two ends meeting in the middle
It’s not two distinct ends
There is always neither
And combinations that can exist off
The inadequate spectrum
Numbers themselves don’t lie
But the analysis that determines
Whether what you measure
Reflects what you care about
Can absolutely lie
And guess what
Colours are even worse than numbers
So if colour is used to encompass
Values, opinions and ideologies
Then let’s talk about those
Instead of prematurely stopping
At surface clashes in colour
Only to find that the colours
Were never univocal to begin with