silver tongue and silver spoon silver night and silver moon silver enough to see your ****** expression staring back in discontent silver enough to blind you with the sun but never to rope it in silver are your loverβs eyes silver are your clothes silver are your very thoughts but at night your dreams are gold always second fiddle your bittersweet symphony such a prayer you never whispered you are a byproduct of greed proof that not all that glitters is gold you are proving it every meal every woman you take every miserable letter you scratch into grecian history what a pity to be born Midasβ brother what a shame to live in second place silver rope and mortal man swing slow from silver tree silver enough to see his ****** expression staring back in discontent
ekphrastic poem on "Ferment" by Roxy Paine, a sculpture of a silver tree in the Nelson-Atkins Art Museum's sculpture garden