Fine. Use a bright pen that is last to be
picked in the packet. May you speak your true
feelings on paper and pray. She can’t see
where your love starts and ends. But she has to.
Yellow is code. Or a guide when it’s time
to trace such silhouettes, can you be brave?
Stammer in Morse. Leave her a dotted line,
or take radio silence to the grave.
Show her sunflower fields. It is a chance,
confess in the only way you know how.
Yellow is easily missed at a glance,
so boldly consume her in colour now.
It’s just wasted ink if she’ll never know;
don’t risk writing love letters in yellow.
Sunflower Fields Diptych by Waltraud von Schwarzbek
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