Chromesthesia

by brutus I once chased hues with ravenous eyes [Verse 1 - Rubato, Fragile Introspection] I once chased hues with ravenous eyes, [Vocal: whispered consonants on "hues" and "lies"] Till colors bled to shapeless lies— [Microtonal ornaments (↑¼ tone)] The prism cracked, its truth unspun, A blind man kneels where light begun [Verse 2 - Subverted Reality] No shadow dares to cross my door, Yet rainbows writhe beneath the floor The stars you praise as night's frail crown, Burn dimmer than my darkness grown [Stabilizes to 4/4 with hidden polyrhythm (3:4 string ostinato)] [Pre-Chorus - Sensory Inversion] [glottal stops on "ash and bone"] My palette burned to ash and bone, Now deathless pigments pulse alone— A moth's wing beats in C-sharp blue, Sunset's chord trembles through my shoe [ 7/8 (2+2+3) creating urgency] [Chorus - Synesthetic Catharsis] O lend me night's ebony lute, To pluck the spectrum gone mute! Five sorrows strung on silver wire, Play oblivion in sapphire fire