Red for love, passion and desire; for courage and fire.
Red for blood that saves lives, for wars that claim sides.
Red for pain, that makes you feel alive!
Do you see the red in me?
For I am so full of it that my lips will tell you stories of reds that one is yet to discover.
More than 50 shades of red lie within the cracks of my lips.
Will you stay to tell me how many you see?
Will you stay to help them smudge into a colour that reflects my soul in your eyes?
My lips can colour your soul too. Would you taste the poison in them to know what my love feels like?
Do you think you could survive and let our kisses linger in eternity?
Frozen moments of softness while the poison works on you. Hooks you in and starts colouring you atom by atom.
Red.
Will you stay and colour my broken pieces where others left midway?
I promise to hide my maroons and drench you in my pinks.
Maybe I will even become a shade of blue for you even though it is impossible for primaries to do that.
You know, the only time reds turn blue is when wounds deepen. Harder the hits, more hues of blue.
We could create a beautiful mandala by putting back all my pieces, all my reds and all my blues I made for you.
You could spend a lifetime with me and I will show you how red and blue together gives the best hue.
Purple! Only if you promise to not go astray midway.
Change your colour and leave if you must, but while I sleep. Not before leaving my reds by the bedside.
Too many have left with them and I keep seeking them in all the wrong places.
An incomplete mosaic with blurred edges and missing pieces.
A failed art of Van Gogh that forgot to cross over with him.
I am falling short of reds of love to give.
I could scrape the last bits for you if you promise to stay. And if you do, I can do miracles too! I can make something out of nothing, my emptiness itself will create a new red for you.
Stay. Is it too much to ask?
Red… red for bloodshot eyes forever welled up.
For red roses with my name that never reached. Red for blushes stolen and betrayals with hearts broken.
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