Red

You were a flavour Sweet, Then sour, Then bitter. Soft at first, the stolen looks, slow but wide And the red and white. The peppermint green, the saccharine Of your eyes as your lips peppered my world with sweetness - My rosy lips that touched the decadent crimson glow Grasped in the palm of my white knuckle hand The steady verdant gaze of my love, not yet a stranger. - And I bite, no longer red and white No true love’s sweet kiss I do not know that anymore Wrapped up tight in a facade Foil and a ribbon A pretty little prison. - Unravel me in your poisonous kiss, Lifeblood is fading Will not I scream Enveloped by an inescapable dream This cannot be living - There is nothing more of me to take I have been devoured If I am to be nothing Let me be yours Just red