Color Transformation Poem

For today and every day
I am cool and calm without dismay
Always polite, peaceful, perfunctory.
And when you care to talk to me
I listen with every sign of glee.
I am green, olive green, pond green
But really, underneath this thin green sheen
Is what most people have not seen.
Behind green skin, a seed of red,
But I guess it just exits within my head.
So when I go on home
And spend some time all alone
I am sharp, I can burn
My green disappears and red takes a turn
Do you know I sing, when there’s no one to hear?
But around people I can’t, I quiver with fear.
It’s like I’ve put my insides, my guts, my brain on a shelf
I guess it’s a shame I’m only red when I’m by myself.