12-10-2016, 07:09 PM
The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have -- Kierkegaard once said. I guess that's what I was trying to capture here. The speaker jumps off of a bunch of other pieces I've posted here, and has a slight obsession with red hair (or perhaps a certain former lover with red hair), and I warped my discussion of colors around that. So it can't really be green, Sparky, especially with the later line, "too much for the combination". The theme is sort of carried over with dyed, but I guess I could do one better, follow Wjames's suggestion of tying the colors to something more concrete (even something tied not only to the later stanza, but to the title) -- and so the new edit. Thanks for the feedback!