Colors of a Broken Heart

Life's crimson trials, on an on they play

Teary vision tinged a rough stormy grey

Gold wrapped rainbows should grace a summer's day,,

Yet mine eyes know only blackness within my soul

Saddness a shadow white light can't make whole

I miss the lush green trees and the daffodils

to feel the umber breeze of a brisk winter's chill

as colors by sight one surely understands

Shall I ever know... what I may have meant to thee?

My heart burned, yet yours longed to be free

What colors have lost love left in me?

I've seen the splendor of the sun's silvery rays

Though now no flaming passions brightly blaze

Only swirling clouds in a lavender haze

once reflected in my love's eyes a cool steel blue

My lips now tinged a darker hue,

Hope, an endless field seen in amber grey

Why not, might love choose to stay?

ne're soothed beneath the artist's brilliant brush

Now I wish to know, what I may have meant to thee

My heart yet burns, your's for'ere lost to me

The blooming colors through which I long to see

Lie crushed and wilted along the burnished road.

For I could only love you

And still my love is true

Though jus as each player plays

his short part upon such a stage

We parted ways as lovers most often do

I've had dreams of soft sky blue

Of lifetimes filled with scented crisp green mint

Now a ghost of mine own tragedy, time recklessly spent

With eyes that watch the world and can't forget

Like people that I've met

The weathered faces from shades of brown composed,

Ajagged thorn which adorned a blood red rose

Now faded like sparks behind the eyes of the eldest man

I fear I'll never know, what I might have meant to thee

Mine Heart's embers like sunset over the deepest sea

colors lost to the blind old fool who once was me

Palooka Thumbles

n'ere Bardic