the duality of just red and black <br /> <br />red for luck as the chinese sees it <br />and black for goodness <br />(remember good guys wear black <br />as the americans <br />put it) <br /> <br />but i do not really believe what the chinese <br />or the american believes it to be <br />to the French <br />in Les Miserables <br /> <br />red is the color of despair <br />and to us <br />Filipinos, black is the color of mourning <br />equate it with despair <br />when idealism dies <br />when our ancestors pass away <br />when we do not think of them anymore <br /> <br />black, death and red, <br />blood, <br />and <br /> <br />something thicker than water <br />darkness, and coldness, and being lost because <br /> <br />'you are drunk and you are standing <br />on the edge of the roof'<br /><br />RIC S. BASTASA<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/try-painting-something-in-two-colors-only/
