Paint me a picture
If I said these 4 words,
What would you draw?
In December of 1965,
You would've wrote
Mine, mine, mine
Over every square inch of
My body.
You would've drawn
Your heart
As a piece of me.
You would have drawn the whites of my teeth
Because all you made them do was
Shine.
Paint me a picture
If I said these 4 words
What would you draw?
Would you draw the chrysanthemums you gave me?
Or the lilacs you gave her?
Would you paint the shine of the ring you gave me reflecting in my eyes?
Or the gleam of betrayal behind yours?
Paint me a picture
If I said these 4 words
What would you draw?
Would you draw your lips on my neck?
Or the bruises on my wrist?
Would you draw the blush on my cheeks?
Or the purples and blues left behind
When you decided
I wasn't good enough?
Paint me a picture
If I said these 4 words
What would you draw?
Would you draw the pools of salty tears and pungent brown liquor?
Or would you draw the teardrops streaming from my muddy eyes?
A place you used to call
Home?
Paint me a picture
If I said these 4 words
Why would you draw me?
I finally understand
Why you would rather paint with lilac purple
Than
Dead
Chrysanthemum
Yellows.
