Spectrum Riot

(hey, hey, let's go!)

I’m not black and white,

I’m a spill on the floor,

Cherry-red laughter, electric roar.

They wanted

pastel, polite, and tame,

But I showed up dripping gasoline paint.

I wear my feelings like tie-dye scars,

Every shade earned, every crack a star.

You can’t mute a soul that bleeds in hue,

I don’t blend in—I burst through.

If I’m “too much,” turn the lights up more,

I didn’t come here to fade or conform.

(whoaa, turn it up!) Be loud in gold,

Be bold like a story that’s never been told.

Paint your truth in a reckless arc,

Glow in the dark in a dull-ass world.

You’re not strange—you’re a spectrum flame,

Say your name like it’s sacred,

say it unashamed. Be loud,

be proud, take up the sky— You’re a walking rainbow,

don’t apologize.

I’ve got glitter in my grief,

fire in my grin,

Sunset rage and serotonin skin.

They flinch when I shine,

when I don’t tone down,

When I strut in color through their gray town.

My laugh’s confetti, my voice is loud,

I bend the rules just by standing out.

I don’t need permission,

don’t need a lane,

I dance in chaos,

I thrive in strange.

Normal’s just beige with a better PR,

I’d rather be art than forget who we are.

Hot pink courage! Electric blue truth!

Sunshine yellow “fuck you” to shame!

We don’t fade, we fluoresce,

We don’t whisper—we express.

If they stare, let ‘em choke on the glow—

This is what it looks like to own who you are,

oh!

So I bleed rainbows.

Laugh in color. Live like the world needs your shade— Because

it does