Grey the dispassionate neutral

Of the industrial decor so brutal

Of a deep charcoal suit

With sophistication acute

Conservative, elegant and cool

A uniform at elementary school

Associated with wisdom

And old age that’s within some

Not a colour of great extremes

Rather middle ground by all means

It’s neither that bright stark white

nor imposing black like the night

It’s neither one thing nor the other

But it is an important colour

Absent of opinion nothing nor

It’s a diplomatic negotiator

In between two differing views

Making it really hard to choose

Gloom, misery or disinterest

Colorless and indifferent

There are so many instances

Negotiating all the distances

Between the black and the white

A bit roundabout and forthright