green means go
unless you’re color blind
or naturally red.

red means yes.

there is so much to unlearn
at once. namely stages
of ways you’ve learned
to quell a thirst
and feelings.
how to feel things.

like the color red,
the please,
and the way to yearn
in foreign tongue,
your native
szeretet,
your native love
is wind.

your native tongue
is wind.