Painting a Picture

In my mind I'm painting a picture Of my memories of you But the brush I'm holding with my heart Cannot mix the right hues It's like a tray of watercolors And sticky tubes of an oil paste They won't blend together When I try to recall your face The passion of red The calmness of blue Curving lines toward the future removed Canvas of half-memories I'm Painting a picture So I take my primary colors Study the color wheel Finding balance in the blending The process of how I heal My portfolio of experience Contains work that no one can see A gallery only in my mind That I carry inside of me The fertile of green The purple bloom Completing the circle in a square room Canvas of half-memories I'm Painting a picture As the paint begins to dry And my eyes do the same Things look different in the sunlight Than the glow of a candle's flame My perspective has changed with time And my palette for empathy Young love is learning the values Not the final mysteries The Yellow of sunshine The shadows and light Revealing the Undertones It's never just black and white Canvas of half-memories I'm painting a picture Canvas of half-memories I'm painting a picture