paint your palette blue and gray
look out on a summers day
with eyes that know the darkness in my soul. shadows on the hills
sketch the trees and the daffodils
catch the breeze and the winter chills
in colours on the snowy linen land. now i understand
and how you suffered for your sanity
and how you tried to set them free: they would not listen; they did not know how --
perhaps theyll listen now. starry
flaming flowers that brightly blaze
swirling clouds in violet haze
reflect in vincent's eyes of china blue
morning fields of amber grain
weathered faces lined in pain
are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand. now i understand
and how you suffered for your sanity
and how you tried to set them free: they would not listen; they did not know how --
perhaps they'll listen now. for they could not love you
and when no hope was left inside
you took your life as lovers often do --
vincent: this world was never meant
for one as beautiful as you.