Bleeding Hearts...

Red.
   Your scarlet letters spouted burnt
   guarantees of eternity.  Your cherry
   chapped lips spewed crimson promises,
   but you couldn't even keep
   the one about loving me forever-
   now my bleeding heart is torn in two,
   a blood-red rose pierced by a deadly thorn.

Orange.
   Your apricot-coated susurrations used
   to sing me to sleep and paint sherbet
   dreams upon my closed lids.  You sang
   sweet marigoldnothings but they quickly
   turned to murmurs of fire-
   now all you do is burn me and create
   poppy-coated nightmares.

Yellow.
   Your star-studded eyes spoke volumes,
   and I believed I could read them.
   I thought they were the windows to your
   soul.  Somewhere I went askew.
   You promised me a shooting star-
   now I'm left trying to put the sun back
   in my sky.

Green.   
   Your grass-stained fingers drew silly
   evergreen patterns on my arms and in
   the heart of my palms.  I didn't think
   the patterns were anything special-
   now no matter how many times I try
   to retrace the moss-studded memories,
   they fade a little more each time.

Blue.
   Your cobalt dreams inspired me.
   You painted my sky full of blue dwarfs
   because you said I took your breath away.
   Every day you sent me forget-me-nots
   so I would never forget you-
   now I spend my days trying to stop
   thinking about you.

Violet.
   Your lavender-musk cologne used to
   encase me in sugar-plum fantasies.  
   You wanted to give me the world
   and fill it with grape-stained
   securities and pledges-
   now I know I was foolish to believe
   you would keep your violet-lined promises.   

Indigo.
   Your azure irises were so unique but
   you always told me I was special.
   With indigo dye we stained our names
   onto the concrete and entwined them
   with a sealed heart.  
   I should have known even dye isn't permanent-
   now all that is left are a few
   sapphire smears and a broken heart.

You painted rainbows in my sky-
now I'm left trying
to put color back into my world.