Personification not powerful enough. Once you do away with the title, either the personification is totally lost or there are infinite interpretation possiblities.
Heh, I like it. This is one of the few that truly captures the challenge objective. I'm not sure what the selective desat adds. To me, the two snuggling brushes are the subject not the lonely one. Your title could go either way however. (does the loenly brush need the intimacy, or does the gray one snuggle up to the black because it needs intimacy?) 7