Red

 
red is the color of your lust---
so tender, wild and unrestrained
that the bull in me will not sleep.


red is the color of your cheeks
heavy with many kisses
erased by many mouths.


red is the color of my heart
besotted with your luminous eyes
that froze out the chill in my cries.


red is the color of my nightmare,
grief for a loss without meaning,
it has altered my days.


red is the color of your jacket
that I so often dream into
and wish now that I were within it!