I was a simple child
of a white girlhood.
Daisy-coloured white.
A time and place of innocence
now so very far from sight.

I became a proper maiden,
graced with white virginity.
A name rightly coloured white.
None could speak an ill word
of a heavy heart of light.

I am now a young bride
from a life blacked white,
in a dress coloured white,
prepared to wed-lock my soul.
None know of my red-white.

Coloured black, red, white…
“No! Coloured white!”