Colour Me In Gold - JP Cooper

You colour me in gold

Lips like petals on my throat

And those fingertips like paintbrush strokes

Paper boats softly float like a song we wrote

But summer comes and summer goes

You change your hair, you change your clothes

The books you read help you explore

The world that you believed in once before

You colour me in gold

Kiss the freckles on my nose

With those blood red pomegranate lips taking sips, hand on hip

Your face could launch a thousand ships

But winter comes and brings the snow

You change your job, you change your home

Still reading books about the ghost of a world you can’t be living any more

And after all, you’ve been nothing but good to me

And the only way that I can pay you back

Is to daily seek those distant memories while I’m standing next to you

So when spring time comes and blossoms grow

Come take my hand, can we expose the hideaways

The hidden doors, the stories we believed in

The land that we both dreamed in once before

You colour me in gold