Red and Yellow and Pink and Green,

Purple and Orange and Blue,

I have made a rainbow,

Yes a rainbow!

You can have a rainbow too.

Buy a ton of books with different coloured spines,

You never have to read them, it’s all about design,

Want a colour-coded library just like mine?

I think you want a rainbow too.

Now arrange all your books and forget about themes,

It’s all about the rainbow – a seven colour scheme,

An Insta-worthy library will always reign supreme,

You must get a rainbow too.

Ditch your ideas around alphabetical and,

Don’t even think about Dewey decimal,

You want your socials to show that your-books-are-cool?

You’ve gotta have a rainbow too.

I’ve never said that reading’s my number one passion,

But I’m certainly a super-fan of bookshelf fashion,

And if you’re happy that it’s books you will splurge all your cash on,

You can have a rainbow too.

Red and Yellow and Pink and Green?

Purple and Orange and Blue?

You have made a rainbow?

Your own book rainbow?

And you think I should have one too?

I saw a rainbow library in an on-line magazine,

Buying books you rarely look at sounds comically extreme,

When you told me you were getting one, I gave an inward scream!

I don’t want a rainbow like you.

I’m sure your cheery library looks a proper stunner,

And mine in comparison is very much duller,

But arranging all your books exclusively by colour?

I’ll never want a rainbow like you.

I don’t want my books in colour coded piles,

I prefer to sort by author rather than style,

And my reading will continue to be logically filed,

I’ll leave the rainbow library with you.

Each to their own, my colour-loving friend,

But I can’t get on board with this candy-coated trend,

There’s no pot of gold at your rainbow’s end,

So I’ll leave the stripey library with you.