literature

The Black and White Paintings

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Literature Text

Your life was full of people

Painted only in black and white,

And I was a dancing palette

So full of color I was a rainbow.

Everyone I came in contact with

Was left with a piece of me,

A color smeared all on their

Perfect white clothing and skin.

The ones I touched hated me,

And would paint over my touch

With black paint until all of me

Was completely erased in nothing.

But you let me come close

And left the smear of colors,

Reds, blues, pinks, and yellows,

On you to let them sink in.

I painted your lips brilliant red

When I kissed you breathless,

And I smeared your back with

Blues of all kinds when I loved you.

But then they stared at you

And whispered about you behind

Their black little tainted hands,

Saying that I’d ruined you.

I noticed the colors I’d left on you

Beginning to fade away slowly,

And I knew that you couldn’t stay

With me where you didn’t belong.

You were still the purest human

I’d ever met, even after loving me,

So I painted you white once again,

And I set you free of me.

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chocicynic's avatar
Beautiful poem. Really touched my heart.