Your cruel crimson lips Blood dripping from your finger tips My love a shattered work of art The result of my broken heart
Splatters of scarlet hope Mark the sheets where we eloped My love a discarded virginity The result of my mistaken affinity
Garnet was the decadent shade Of the dress that veiled my vestal glade My love a slippery hemline The result of my relentless pine
The rusty curls on your head Delivered me willingly into the bed My love a handful of tangled hair The result of my wanton affair
The flowers he sent were red Reluctantly, I told him you were dead My love a half-hearted lie The result of my wandering eye
A ring offered, of ruby and gold Silver is better, but I was sold My love a rehearsed song The result of my doing wrong
A burgundy kiss for a charming knight A wedding of chastity white My love a perfected role The result of my injured soul
An artificial cherry-flavored ******* Sloppy second copulation My love a feigned first The result of my unquenched thirst
The sheet is stained with merlot Out with the trash, then he will never know My love a memorized line The result of my spilled debaucherous wine.
I'm still trying to decide if I want the title to just be "Vermillion" or if I want it to be something like "Vermillion Nevermore"... but, that will have to be figured out later.
And, I'm struggling with whether it should be an artificial cherry-flavored *******, sloppy second copulation or ******* and copulation switched to be: an artificial cherry-flavored copulation, sloppy second pentration. I think I like it how it is, but I will look at it again and probably be able to choose.
I'm also wondering if I can ignore that it is hope--eloped, and not a more fitting rhyme..