Love is Gray
They say love is red
But love is gray
Gray like the sky at the end of each day
Gray like the sheets on which we lay
Drenched in the love that pours out our pores
Drenched like the murmurs muffled behind closed doors
What was once innocent and white
becomes tarnished and gray in the night
They say love is red
But love is gray
They say it is red like the blood
that flows from my veins to my heart
but if that's what they think then they do not know
where my love starts
Love is gray like the bones that have built me
It is more than these silly red veins that have filled me
They say love is red
But love is gray
No other color explains why
I feel this way
For shallow is the meaning
of the color red
soaking in our sheets and cheeks
bringing lovers to our beds
For gray is more eternal
almost etched in stone
Gray is the ghost of your lover
even after they have gone
They say love is red
and they search for the color every day
But they will never find it
For love is gray