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What colour is bravery?

I think there are ten thousand colours 

That live in every square meter of the sea.

So, orange, maybe? And yellow. And silver. 

And teal. And mud. 

And the window colour that looks out 

Onto the picked up footprints of those 

Who've had enough. 

We have all had enough. 

Bravery is the colour of the shit holes 

We wish didn't define us. 

Bravery is the colour of Heartsea. 

Bravery is the colour of Salehorse. 

Bravery is the colour of the pebbles 

Stolen from the beach and used to 

Separate you and me. 

It’s brave to be in pursuit 

Of creating yourself. 

It’s brave to be in pursuit 

Of dancing into knitted cherries. 

It’s brave to say I love you 

And know you are never 

Going to hear it back. 

It’s brave to vanish into energy. 

It’s brave to read about 

The excited state of atoms 

While everyone else is watching Love Island. 

Bravery is the colour of Jessica. 

Bravery is the colour of Shakespeare. 

Bravery is the colour of Liu Xiaobo. 

Bravery is the colour of the blood 

That comes out when you get hurt. 

Bravery is the colour of my sister 

Who still believes she is an afterthought. 

Bravery is the colour of you.  

Actors are brave. Brickies are brave. 

Forensic psychologists are brave. 

Receptionists at the merged doctors in 

Wantage are brave. 

Physics teachers. Mathematics teachers. 

The tour guides at the Ramsgate Tunnels. 

The Bar staff.

The people who deliver love letters.

The DJ’s at the Quietus. 

They are all colours 

And all those colours are the colour brave. 

I think there are ten thousand colours 

That live in every square meter of the sea. 

I think we are both superheroes 

And we are here to save the world. 

Thats what you told me. 

So then, bravery is the colour of us, 

Always us. 

Bravery is the colour of mess, 

Always mess. 

Bravery is the colour of 

Eagles wings. 

Bravery is the colour of 

We still have time to change everything”. 

What colour is bravery? 

Bravery is the colour of age. 

Bravery is the colour of 

Childhood running away. 

Bravery is the colour of knowing 

That this is meant to be. 

We are meant to be. 

I think there are ten thousand colours 

That live in every square meter of the sea

And I think we are meant to be.

That is the colour of bravery.