Free Election

Natalia García Bonilla

It was primary colour,

principal colour

associated to the intensity

to the fruit of passion

the fiery red or the infernal red.

He had fallen in love

with the purity and delicacy.

He fell in love with a neutral

that was married with the black

that kept her prisoner

in the yin and yang,

in the footsteps of zebra, and did not allow her to pass.

Their children were grey,

prisoners of hardships with few joys to tell.

They wanted to cut impurities without more,

they wanted laugh days and did not have darkness

anymore.

The red in a picture invited the white to dance

and white proposed to red a leak to a range of happiness.

White abandoned black and his damn darkness

that kept her prey of fear and insecurity.

White and red were married and a “very special” pink was born,

because people called it a girl for the reason of that stupid social code.

It felt like a boy and it did not want to be anything else

than what he felt in his heart,

even though others did not understand that there is free choice.