Contrasting Colors

I’m standing on soil you’ve never felt

The subtle hints of secrets you’ll never tell

You lay in bed sick when I’m around

You can’t be found

Would you say that you loved me if you were allowed?

Or is a weak-kneed sense of bravery what you carry ‘round?

Spinning circles in the park outside your house

Fall into place like contrasting colors

You were gold, I was green to discover

Swirling like oceans apart from each other

You and I may never be lovers

Staining your skin with my fingerprints

But you’ve shed the coat I’m familiar with

The mark you said would last, I’m noticing

It never did

Would you say that you loved me if you knew I do?

Or is protecting your pride worth more than the truth?

I’m still waiting on something you outgrew

You’re a well with water deep

Its taste just out of reach

And my hands are blistered still

But what was it all for?

To compromise what’s pure?

Tell me: Was I ever true?

Swirling like oceans apart from each other

You and I may never be lovers