Colourblind - Andy Nicholson

I got registered as colourblind
When I was 6.
I got told I would struggle
With pink’s and grey’s
When I was 6.

I got told I would struggle
Telling blue’s and purple apart
When I was 6.

I got told I would
Never become a train driver
And lots of other jobs
I had never
Heard off
Back when I was 6.

So I became a poet
And now get words mixed up
Instead of colours.