Hope You Like It

A dab of color here and there

Maybe yellow, maybe blue

Upon a secret project I've embarked, dear

I'm going to paint a kingdom for you

And you alone

A swirl of the brush paints the moon

With tendrils of horsehair serpentine

A craggy castle overlooking a vast sea of turpentine 

Lonesome and majestic

As you are

A rippling sea of grass

Forged through the stroke of a wrist

A cresting wave of emerald green

With flowers in place of sea foam

Undulating gently

The sky, an incarnadine

Keeping the paint heavens aloft

Clouds of purple shades 

Like schools of fish

Never daring to set foot on the earth

The ground itself is alive

With shifting myriad colors

The realm of the dryad 

Old and overgrown 

Tangled beyond compare

Forest green beneath the shining stars

Of icy cold blue

And maybe, just maybe

One of those stars will descend

A fiery, shrieking angel, to caress the earth 

For you, I paint a kingdom

Away and sheltered from the world

Where old, far-off things will no longer trouble

With bony, crooked fingers

A place of repose and solace

Into the paint goes my heart

Leaden and volatile 

More than just color that pleases the eye

A thing of hope and desire and love

I hope you like it