I. I asked if you had a favorite color.
Being the way you are you told me you didn't
Told me you thought every color was equally important.
I told you that was pretentious
and that mine was purple.
II. After that night I began to see colors
in places that had once been black and white.
III. Red
for love and longing
and the way I care for you with every ounce of my being.
The way your absence rips my heart clean out of my body.
IV. Orange
for desire
how I want you to call me 'baby'
and 'darling'
and 'your girl'.
V. Yellow
for warmth
and joy
and the feeling in my chest when you wrap your arms around me.
The way my heart beats faster than I once perceived possible
as your fingertips dance across my skin.
VI. Green
for greed
and the way I don't want anyone else to have you.
this gift that I've been granted
by the grace of something far more divine than I.
VII. Blue
for healing
and softness.
How you told me you wanted to show me
what being loved was really like.
The gentleness of your voice
when you whispered 'you are safe with me'.
VIII. Purple
for romance and luxury
and all of the beautiful things you say to me.
How you make me feel like a million bucks.
IX. White
for purity
and the way that every thing about you is perfect to me.
X. Black
for strength.
How you seem to have so much
and I am embarrassed for having so little.
But you are strong enough for the both of us
when I cannot be
and I will be strong enough for the both of us
when you cannot be
because I love you.
YOU ARE READING
loving you in color
Puisifor the boy who '[doesn't] have a favorite color because [he] feels that all colors have their own purpose'