THE COLOUR AT THE END OF LIGHT

There is a colour that does not register in the half light. At such times of indiscriminate light that colour so removed from its attention-seeking presence, is altogether missing. Registered then it is only a darkened shade noted only for its absence surrounding the lighter shades that are now more visible than before. The colour is red. It is the colour of death for when it is made visible it flows towards a certain end and remains only in the memory of that last and fading day.