Synesthesia

one alone is white
two is blue or red
yellow is yellow
Y-E-eleven-O-W
orange is three
lemon is a newspaper
nine can be green this time
camouflaged in brown
pink is never a color
but sometimes a candy

one alone is always white
but ten is black
and multiples of ten
base ten
solemn and serious
like the count of so many deaths
grouped in tens
hundreds
thousands
hundred thousands
in all-absorbing black

the colors in between
have numbers and flavors
and one alone is white