Smart-Ass Orange

It's not just your juice
squeezed from the citrus fruit
you hold in your hand.....

I'll tell you who "Orange" really is.

She's the smarmy, sarcastic
somewhat elusive being
who sits in the corner
away from everyone else
waiting....

for the right moment to strike
with perfectly timed
acid-tongued jabs
that cut right to the target.

You know the one,
who feels like a flame
when you hold your hand too close
^^that's "Orange"

She's the punk twin sister of Red
who does plenty
but never gets caught,
never gets pulled over for a speeding ticket,
makes you wonder if she's kidding
or going for the jugular
with her verbal perceptions of you.

You must think about her
and what she's said
until the realization hits
that Orange,
and her words,
are whatever you decide them to be

and she's completely fine with that.