Love's Complicated Colors

You know what?

In this world

All the ways of saying hello like

What are you doing now?

Have you eaten yet?

We paint in shades of maybe

On this canvas torn and hazy

Your blue eyes mixed with my regret

Create a shade I can't forget

Oh these complicated colors

That we bleed for one another

You're the red of my desire

The gray of dying fire

We mix the pain and pleasure

In unequal measure

We dance in silent conversations

Through all our miscommunications

Your touch says stay, your words say go

The only truth we'll ever know

Can't read this map we're drawing

Between the love and warning

These complicated hues

I'll always choose