What Color is Love?

 1990 De Paul University

Writing from the Inside

Teacher: Zoe Keithley 

 

What Color is Love?

 

I can hide here

Here in my song

Hide my color, hide my love

You don't know my color nor

The color of my love.

What color is love?

Who must approve its color?

If I tell you of my love,

Must I include its color?

Can you hear my feelings?

Do blind people chose -

To love by color?

Are blind people prejudice?

Would they toss love aside,

A deep love, if the color were wrong?

What is the right color?

Must love have approval?

Who gives approval?

I have a love -

Must I hide its color?

Through love's filter

I sense inner color

Another level and dimension of love

A love that can filter out ugliness

The ugliness of hatred.

Can we rise above 

Look inside for the answers?

Could we learn to savor

Like ice cream -

The flavors of us all?