Is it melancholy or euphoria?
Honestly, the colour amber exudes ambivalence in such a way that I can never decide if I am hopeful or cynical.
Such was the colour that greeted me, that faithful twilight of my arrival home.
Tanah Air. Earth and water.
A rather poetic way to refer to one's homeland. Mix those two things and you'd get mud.
shades of amber
Alas, what do I make of my return? I know not.
...
Amber skies above me;
What secrets doth belie thee.
Thy colour confounds many,
mine gaze lost as with any.
Oh cast thy taunts aloud,
I shalt yet face thy clout.
For what toll can thee bring?
What torment upon me sting?
To this pain I shalt say none.
In due time, 'twill be all done.